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Plessy v. Ferguson
A black man went to trial because he sat in a white only car at the railroad. -
Thurgood Marshall
was the first black person to be in the supreme court and he was a lawyer for the black people. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
he was part of the civil rights movment and he was a black preacher and he was shot by a white man because he was about to end segergration -
brown v board of education
a trial in the court to stop segergration for schools and let black kids go to school with white kids