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Supreme Court decides three civil rights cases
Supreme Court decides three civil rights cases in which it allows colored students into Universities. -
Harry Moore, leader of NAACP is killed
Harry Moore, leader of NAACP is killed, and his wife is fatally wounded when their home is bombed -
Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower wins presidential election
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Supreme Court orders reargument in Brown v. Board
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Supreme Court rules that public school segregation violates the equal protection of the 14th Amendment
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Rosa Parks is arrested
Rosa Parks is arrested in Montomery, Alabama for not removing herself from her seat when a white man asks her to move -
Autherine Lucy is accepted into the University of Alabama
Autherine Lucy is accepted into the University of Alabama. She is the first African-American student after litigation in federal court -
First federal civil rights bill since 1875
after it is significantly weakened in the Senate to avoid a filibuster. The act makes conspiring to deny citizens their right to vote in federal elections a federal crime -
the Court decides Cooper v. Aaron
Unanimously overturning a district court decision allowing the Little Rock school board to postpone desegregation -
Mack Charles Parker
accused of raping a white woman, is taken from jail in Poplarville, Mississippi, and lynched by a mob
