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The supreme court rules that segregation in public transportation that travel between states is unlawful and unconstitutional on December 5, 1959

This was partly due to the Freedom Riders who rode interstate buses down to the South to make sure the waiting rooms and buses were desegregated

The riders were attacked by white mobs and only reached Jackson Mississippi, instead of Louisiana which was their goal

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The Supreme Court (Cooper v. Aaron)  says that the threat of mob violence is not a good reason to delay desegregation of the school

This case relates to the Brown v. Board of Education because that case said to desegregate schools with “all deliberate speed”

This was after the Little Rock Nine

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Four African Americans sat-in at a white-only lunch counter in Woolworth's which is in North Carolina

July 25,th 1959 Woolworth desegregated their lunch counters (6 months of sit-ins)

Sit-ins began in 13 states

CORE helped lead the sit-in movement

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Martin Luther King Jr. joins  a student sit in at a white only restaurant called Rich’s.

MLK was arrested for not having a valid Georgia license (He had a Alabama license)

Presidential candidate JFK calls Coretta (MLK’s wife), to provide encouragement

While Robert Kennedy convinced the Dekalb County Judge to let him go

MLK and 51 other protesters were arrested for trespassing

MLK was sentenced to four months in prison

He had to do hard labor

He was release October 27, 1959