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Supreme Court ruled that "separate but equal" public facilities were constitutional. Jim Crow laws.
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African Americans had served their country during war and wanted equal rights.
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U.S. Supreme Court declared "separate but equal" was unconstitutional and all public schools must desegregate.
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Because of the resistance to desegregation from many states, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that all states must desegregate their public schools "with all deliberate speed."
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Beginning in the 1956 school year, Harry S. Byrd led the Massive Resistance Movement in Virginia. It was a policy adopted by Virginia State government to prevent integration. Public schools closed so they would not have to allow African American students to attend schools.
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Arkansas National Guard stopped nine African American students from going to the now integrated Central High.
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22 armed soldiers escorted the Little Rock Nine into Central High.
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Maury, Norview and Granby high schools and Northside, Norview and Blair junior highs are now opened and integrated.
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He and more than 200,000 Americans march on Washington D.C., where he gives his "I Have a Dream" speech.
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Finally, a legal end to segregation in public places, such as bathrooms and theaters. It also banned discrimination in the work place.
