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NAACP Challenges the constitutionality of seperate but equal schhols
Supreme court ruled that every state had to offer equal education oppurtunities -
Heman Sweatt Applied for school at University of Texas
This school did not accept black students.Rather than admit sweatt they made a seperate law school for african americans -
Segregation after WWII
African American people fight for equal voting -
Military Segregation
African american civil rights protesters started picketing outside of the National Democratic Convention fighting against millitary segregation -
Brown v. Board o Eduction
Linda Brown, seven years old in Topeka Kansas went to an all white school because it was closer to her house. The school would not allow her to attend so her dad sued the school board. -
Seperate and not equal
all schools were required to desegregate all public schools "with all deliberate speed" -
The Montgomery Boycott
Rosa Parks would not give her seat up to a white man on the bus and was arrested for her actions E. D. Nixon used her case to try and stop the bus segregation law. all african americans started boycotting busses in Montgomery Alabama -
Martin Luther King Jr.
He supported the church and the bus boycots he was the leader of them -
Montgomerys Bus segregation
The Supreme Court ruled that the bus segregation was illgeal. -
Little Rock Nine
The school board decided to start with highschool then slowly work down to the elementary it started at Centreal Highschool -
Graduation
In may 1958 ernest green became the first african american to graduate from central high school -
James Meredith
James Meredith is the first black student to attend Mississppi