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NAACP Seprate but not equal
a series of court cases that challenged the constitutionlity of seprate but equal -
Speak Mr. President Speak
A protest out side the wihte house demanding that the president respond to civil right advocates -
Herman Sweatt
Sweatt applided for law school at the Universtity of Texas and was denided insdead a serprate school was created for blacks -
Committe on Civil Rights
A committee made by the president to study racial disrimination and suggest federal solutions -
Truman ended segregation in the Military
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Thurgood Marshall
Marshall was the NAACP attorney who argued the Sweatt case -
Brown vs. Board of Education
The supreme Cournt over ruled the seprate but equal doctrine claiming that it was far but equal -
Desegragation of the school
The Supreme court made a stronger ruling demanding the public school to desegragate "with all deliberate speed" -
Rosa Parks
Rosa after refusing to give her seat to a white passenger on a bus was arrested this gave the the Former NAACP leader E. D. Nixon the chance to challenge the bus segregation law -
Montgomery bus boycott
In 1956 the U.S. Supreme court ruled the Montgomery's segregated bus system illegal -
Little Rock Nine
The school board in Little Rock Arkansas selected nine outstanding African American students to attend Central High School -
Elizabeth Eckford
Elizabath was not allowed to enter the School and was froced to face a large angry mob -
James Meredith
The Supreme Court ordered the University of Mississippi to Accept James as its first African American Student
