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Supreme Court
The supreme court ruled that every state had too offer equal educational opportunities -
Truman
President Truman made the Committe on Civil Right to study racial descrimination and to suggest federal solutions to the problem -
african american
An african american named Heman Sweatt applied to the law school at the university of texas, which did not accept black students -
military
Truman ended segregation in the military -
school
The supreme court ordered the university to admit Sweatt to its law school -
naacp
the naacp decided to focus its legal efforts on ending segregation in public schools -
Brown case
The supreme court ruled in the Brown case that segregation in public schools is illegal -
school
only three districts in the entire south beganto desegregate. -
school
the court made its ruling stronger for ordering public schools to desegregate "with all deliberate speeds" -
boycott
african american seamstress, rosa parks, refused to give up her seat to a white passenger -
boycott
the supreme court ruled that montgomery's segregated bus systems was illegal. -
school
THe school board elected 9 outstanding african americans students to attend Central High School