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The Brown vs The Board of Education trials put an end to segregation inside schools. Before the trial ended on May 17th, 1954, all school boards were allowed to refuse schooling to students of color. However after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of brown, segregation in schools was banned and helped to join together students of any color. -
Rosa Parks refusing to get out of her bus seat in 1955 sparked what would later become the civil rights movement that we know today. Rosa Parks not leaving her seat started the Montgomery bus boycott where many civilians refused to ride the bus until people of color were allowed to sit where ever they wanted to. -
The little rock nine was a group of nine African American teenagers who were the first students with black skin tones to be enrolled in an American high school. The strength and bravery of those nine students to go into an all-white and incredibly racist and discriminatory high school and stick it out was amazing and it set a president for all other schools. It started with them, but because of all their actions, it led to all schools becoming unsegregated. -
On May 2nd 1963, the Birmingham protest saw over one thousand African American children march into the downtown area of Birmingham where hundreds would be arrested. More children would go down each day and attempt to be arrested, and the reason for being put under arrest was to fill up the jails, so if more protests went on they can't arrest anyone, and the Mayor of Birmingham Bull Connor would be removed from his position. The protests would end up successful in removing Bull Connor from office -
On August 23rd, 1963 Martin Luther King Jr delivered the now-famous I Have a Dream speech in which he preached to everyone listening his dreams and aspirations to put an end to segregation in all forms. He called for all segregated jobs, bars, schools, and everything else to be put to a stop, and in a peaceful way. This speech is what brought him to his fame and why most know him today. This speech was not only revolutionary but iconic for the civil rights movement.