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Truman Creates the Commitee on Civil Rights
The Commitee on Civil Rights is created to moniter and help racial descrimination be lessened. -
Truman ends segregation in the military
Truman ends segregatioin the military and in federal offices. -
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Sweatt vs. Painter
Herman Sweatt asked to be admitted to the University of Texas they wouldn't allow him to enter, so instead the University chose to create a university for blacks only, the supreme court decided it was wrong -
Brown v. Board of Education
The Supreme Court ruled that segregation was wrong in public schools. -
3 School districts in the South Desegregate
Under the orders of the Supreme Court only three school destricts in the south begin to desegregate. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus on Montgomery, Alabama, she was arrested -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
After the Rosa Parks incident , E. D. Nixon who was the former leader of the NAACP created a boyocott of all City bus systems. -
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
A boycott that was started because Rosa Parks was arrested for sitting on the only white section of a bus in Montgomery Alabama. -
Supreme Court rules in favor of Rosa Parks
Supreme Court says that the Montgomery Alabama bus system was illegal -
Little Rock Nine
9 upstamding students were admitted to an all white high school, Central Highschool. -
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Govenor Faubus Fights Integration
Govenor Faubus closed Little Rock public schools for an entire school year just to fight integration. This ended in 1959 when the court reopened the schools and began the process of slow integration.
