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the case that allowed separate but equal was called Plessy v. Ferguson. The case took place in Topeka Kansas and the court unanimously overruled it.
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A young African American boy was lynched for flirting with a white girl in Money Mississippi
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Rosa parks was riding the bus and a white individual asked for her seat but she denied them which lead to her arrest.
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President Eisenhower passed the law and it primarily a voting rights bill for African Americans.
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Nine African American students tried to go to an integrated school but white extremist mobs broke out causing federal enforcement to be involved. The police were sent but then federal troops were sent.
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Four black young men refuse to leave a white only restaurant and then many other across the country take by example. It happened in Greensboro North Carolina.
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Both whites and African Americans rode buses that refused to integrate. This movement was helped by the CORE organization.
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Governor stopped him but the President sent federal troops to escort him which lead to a riot of whites.
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civil rights activist and field secretary for the NAACP in Mississippi, was shot in the back while walking up to his house. His two small children witnessed his murder.
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It was a way to get public support so congress would pass the civil rights bill. Dr. Martin Luther King jr. gave his " I have a dream' speech.
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An African American man witnessed a murder and then was killed by two white men but no one was convicted in Liberty Mississippi.
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It was passed by the House of Representatives and it got rid of segregation and gave power to the government to prevent it .
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In Marion, Alabama Jimmie Lee Jackson was murdered by a state trooper for being in a Civil Rights March.
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It was to help the voting rights of blacks it was successful even with the white extremist opposition. In the end The President protect their rights
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In Hayneville, Alabama Seminary student Jonathan Daniels was murdered by a deputy to sacrifice himself rather than a African American girl.
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Mr. Marshall was the U.S. Solicitor General before he was in the supreme court and that presence showed that blacks were actually getting recognized.
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Stood on his hotel balcony and was shot by a sniper. It was such a big deal that Congress decided to finally pass the Civil Rights Act.
