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Equal Education Oppurtunities
The end of NAACP legal defense team won a series of court cases that chalenged the constitutionality of seperate but equal schools. The supreme court ruled that every state had to offer equal education oppurtunities. -
Civil Rights Protest Outside the White House
African american leaders asked president Truman for help during the protest their signs called on Turman to speak. -
African Aerican denied from University of Texas
An African American student applied to law shcool at the University of Texas, and rather than admit him, school officials coose to create a seperate school for African Americans. -
committee on civil rights is created
Truman created this committee to study racial descrimination and to suggest federal solutions to the problem. -
segregation ended in the military
Truman took action after African American leaders became frustrated with the little action taken by congress. -
Sweatt vs Painter
Supreme court ruled that new African American law school did not provide students with access to equal accedemic prestige facilities or instructors. -
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NAACP focuses on ending segregation in public schools
They decieded to focus their legal efforts on ending segregation and a number of school segregation cases came together under the title of Brown vs Board of Education. -
Segregation in Public Schools is Ruled Illegal
The spring court ruled in the Brown case in favor of ending segregation. -
Only 3 school disticts Desegregate
Despite the courts order, very few ditricts in the south began to desegregate and other districts adoped gradual desegregation plans. -
Public Schools are Ordered to Desegregate
Supreme schools made its ruling stronger and forced all public schools to desegrigate with deliberate speed. -
Montgomery's BUs Segregation System
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger and was quickly arrested. Former NAACP leader E.D. NIxon used her case to challenge the Bus Segregation Law. -
Segregated Bus System Ruled Illegal
Supreme Court rules the Segregated Bus System illegal and the victory brought MLKJ to the four-front of the civil rights movement -
Elizabeth Eckford
Daisy Bates the president of NAACP arranged rides to the high school for the Little Rock Nine but Elizabeth Eckford didnt get the message. When she went to school by herself she was met by a mob. Soliders would not allow her to enter and she faced a large mob of enraged protesters alone. -
The LIttle Rock Nine
School Board in Little Rock, Arkansa selected nine African American students to attend centeral HIgh School.
