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Pearsall Plan
After the United States Supreme Court's Febuary 18, 1956 decision in Brown v. Board of Education prohibiting public school segregation, a North Carolina Governor's Special Advisory Committee on Education was established. It was chaired by North Carolina House Speaker Thomas J. Pearsall and was directed to advise the Governor. -
Little Rock Nine
The Little Rock Nine were a group of African-American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. The ensuing Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus, and then attended after the intervention of President Eisenhower, is considered to be one of the most important events in the African-American Civil Rights Movement.[1] -
Greensboro sit-in
On February 1, 1960, four students from Nort Carolina sat down at the lunch counter inside the Woolworth's store .The men, later known as the Greensboro Four, ordered coffee. Following store policy, the lunch counter staff refused to serve the African American men at the "whites only" counter and the store's manager asked them to leave. -
Busing in Charlotte
Meclenburg county .It was a court ordered the leader was James B Mcmillion and there was long bus rides to schools. -
Wilmtington Riots
On February 6, 1971, Mike's Grocery, a white-owned business, was firebombed. 9 black men and 1 white womenwere convicted for the crime. the riote resulted into death.
