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What two important civil rights
actions occurred during
Eisenhower's presidency?

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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

-Reverend Oliver Brown protested that it was unfair that his eight year old daughter lived closer to a "white" school but was forced to take a long bus ride to her "black" school across town

-Supreme Court ruled that public schools must be racially integrated

Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white man on the bus

-her arrest sparked a boycott of the entire Montgomery, Alabama bus, system

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