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Plessy V Ferguson
was a us supreme court case that Made public places seperate but equal. It gave places a white part and a coloured part. -
Brown v Board
a case that resulted in The banning of school segregation. -
Emmett TIll Murder
He was visiting relatives in mississippi and he reportedly was flirting with a white woman then he got kidnaped and was shot in the head. -
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Montgomery bus boycott
A mass protest by African American citizens in Montgomery Alabama against segregation policies on public buses. -
Crisis in little rock
A group of nine african americans enrolled in little rock central high school where the students were prevented from entering the school. -
Freedom riders
peiople who challenged the racial laws in the american south by refusing to follw segregated bus laws. -
intergration of Ole Miss
Riots arupted to protest the enrolment of James Meredith, a black Air Force veteran attempting to integrate the all-white school. -
Civil RIghts Act
an law passed that Made all emplyment equal for everyone. -
Freedom summer
a project to get the most afican american people to register and vote in mississippi. -
Detroit Race Riot
159 race riots occured during this timespan. One of the biggest ones was the Detroit race riot of 1967.
