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Civil Rights Activists protested outside the White House.
African Americans focused their efforts on voting discrimination.The drive for African American voting rights brought intense conflict, violence grew and African American started asking Truman for help which lead to this protest. -
When Truman responded to pressure from African Americans about voting.
Truman created the Committee on Civil Rights to study racial discrimination and to suggest federal solutions to the problem. The committees report noted that there was racial discrimiation throughout the whole country. This committee crated new laws to protect all voters, which included African Americans. -
Truman ended segregation in the military.
African Americans became frustrated with only little action by Truman and Congress, so finally Truman ended segregation in the military, he also banned racial discrimination in the hiring of federal employees. -
NAACP decided to focus legal efforts on ending segregation in public schools.
Thurgood Marshall led the courtroom battles on this issue. A number of school segregation cases came together under the title of Brown v. Board of Ed. -
Sweatt v. Painter
Argued that the new school did not provide African Americans with access to equal academic prestige, facilities, and instructors. -
Brown v. Board of Education
Surpreme Court ruled in the Brown case that segregation in public schools was illegal. -
Bus Boycott
Rose Parks refused to give up her seat to a white person on a bus and she got arrested which lead to a bus boycott called Montgomery Bus Boycott. -
Little Rock Nine
School Board selected 9 outstanding African American students to attend Central High School. -
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Closed Little Rock Nine
Governer Faubus continues to fight interegation and closed LIttle Rock public schools for a year and finally reopened under court order in 1959. -
Ernest Green graduated
Ernest Green was the first African American to gradute from Central High School. Nobody clapped when he recieved his diploma but he waas proud to be the first African American to recieve one from Central High School.
