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School Sergregation Trials
The Brown v. Board of Education was actually the name given to five separate cases that were heard by the U.S. Supreme Court about the issue of segregation in public schools. These cases were Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Briggs v. Elliot, Davis v. Board of Education of Prince Edward County (VA.), Boiling v. Sharpe, and Gebhart v. Ethel. The result of these trials was that segregation of public schools was banned. -
City Bus Disaster
Rosa Parks a 42-year-old African American woman who worked as a seamstress, boarded this Montgomery City bus to go home from work but was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for not giving up her seat to a white man. This resulted in a boycott of city buses, this was serious because black people made up 75% of the bus riders, eventually segregation of city buses was banned. -
Greensboro Sit-ins Start A Chain Reaction
The first sit-ins take place in Greensboro, North Carolina when four African American college students from North Carolina A+T College (an all-black college) went to get served in an all-white restaurant called Woolworth’s. The shop was open to all customers regardless of colour, but the restaurant was for whites only. They asked for food, were refused service and asked to leave. The next day 24 students went to the sit in. Over 70,000 people participated in sit-ins in many different places. -
Civil Rights Act Of 1965 Gets Passed!
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson just a few hours after House approval on July 2, 1964. The act outlawed segregation in businesses such as theaters, restaurants, and hotels. It banned discriminatory practices in employment and ended segregation in public places such as swimming pools, libraries, and public schools. -
Busing in Charlotte Gets a "Slow" Start
Due to the desegregation of public places including schools all the students needed a way to get to school and this was the probably the only way to integrate the schools.The result of this was that many students had very long bus rides that lasted hours.
