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Flying Tigers {Ans: American pilots who volunteered to fight for China}Lester Maddox {Ans: This racist restaurant owner closed his restaurant rather than integrate. He eventually became governor and hired more blacks to office than all prior governors combined.}Jackie Robinson {Ans: The first African American player in the major league of baseball. His actions helped to bring about other opportunities for African Americans.}Hernandez vs. Texas {Ans: argued that Pete Hernandez could not get a fair trial because no Mexican Americans were allowed on the jury; supreme court agreed}Tuskegee Airmen {Ans: 332 Fighter Group famous for shooting down over 200 enemy planes. African American pilots who trained at the Tuskegee flying school.}Little Rock Nine {Ans: In September 1957 the school board in Little rock, Arkansas, won a court order to admit nine African American students to Central High a school with 2,000 white students. The governor ordered troops from Arkansas National Guard to prevent the nine from entering the school. The next day as the National Guard troops surrounded the school, an angry white mob joined the troops to protest the integration plan and to intimidate the AA students trying to register. The mob violence pushed