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The reason that this case was brought to court was because of a little girl named Linda Brown. She wanted to go to a public school in Topeka, Kansas but was denied access. She was told that she had to go to a school across town. When this got brought to the Supreme Court, it was deemed unconstitutional because separate but equal had no place in schools. -
The Montgomery bus boycott started when Rosa Parks refused to give her seat up to a white passenger on a city bus. She was arrested and civil rights leaders decided it was the time to step up. The African Americans went a little over a year finding different ways to get to work and all of the other places they needed to go. The case was taken to the supreme court and it was ruled unconstitutional to have segregation on a bus. This led to the buses being integrated. -
9 African American students were chosen to go to an all white school. The governor wanted to get reelected. His response to this was to put troops outside the school to prevent the African American students from entering. When Eisenhower heard he had the troops sent away. The governor let the angry mob stay there and attack the students. Eisenhower then had the troops escort the kids to and from school to ensure their safety. -
The sit-in movement was started by 4 African American students that wanted to be served at a counter that was suppose to be for white people only. The students would be denied service and not leave the counter until closing. The white people did not like this and would attack the students. After a couple days, more students joined and more students joined. No matter what the white people did they remained not violent. -
The freedom riders were trying to stop the segregation on the interstate buses. They would mostly be students and ride from the North to the South. When they got there they were met with angry white mobs that would slit the tires and throw rocks at the windows. On one bus they threw a firebomb onto the bus, killing no one, and on another bus when they got off they were met with a gang. They had baseball bats, chains and lead pipes. These people were beat unrecognizable. -
James Meredith was an american air force veteran who applied for a transfer to the university of Mississippi. Before he applied for the transfer the school was ignoring the supreme courts ruling about ending segregated education. When he tried to register the governor blocked his path. President Kennedy, in response to this, sent 500 troops to escort James Meredith to school. When they got there on the first day, they were met with an angry white mob and a riot erupted. -
These marchers wanted more support from Congress to get a civil rights bill passed. Over 200,000 people went to march. One of these people being Martin Luther King Jr. At this march, he gave his famous I have a dream speech. After this march all these people could do was wait to hear whether the bill was passed or not. They waited until June of the following year to find out that it passed. -
Malcolm X believed that African Americans should separate themselves from whites and create their own self-governing communities. He joined a group called the Nation of Islam. This group did not encourage violence but they encouraged self-defense. Later on, he left this group and started to criticized what the group did and what the group believed in. This lead to his assassination. -
African Americans had the right to vote but they were unable to. Angry white mobs would not let them in. They would beat them and murder them. African Americans were through with this and decided to march. The result of this march was that 2,000 African Americans were arrested. In response to this the U.S. attorney general created the Voting rights act of 1965. -
Many African Americans lived in poverty and had little job opportunities. There were a lot of school drop outs and single parents. The black panthers was a group that believed that there needed to be a revolution for any real change to occur. They also believed that all African Americans should be armed.