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A court case in which Linda Brown, a girl of African American descent, was denied admission to her school due to her being black. This was taken to court and the case Brown v. Board of Education was put to trial. In the end, the court ruled in favor of Brown. It was stated by Chief Justice Earl Warren that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. And, it also violated the 14th amendment. -
After the Rosa Parks incident on the Montgomery bus, a boycott was plotted and executed to fight against segregation. Martin Luther King was the leader of this boycott. He advocated a peaceful protest, with his pure philosophy. Through this he succeded and laws reguarding segregation on buses were declared unconstitutional. -
In Little Rock, Arkansas a court order was won, stating that nine African American kids were to be admitted to Central High. This school is predominantly white school. The governor of the town, Orval Faubus, was not fond of this decision due to him being a racist. He ordered the Arkansas National Guard to ensure the students did not enter the school. Faubus began to use the armed force of the state to oppose the federal government. Eisenhower sent an army to Little Rock to arrest him. -
It began with four smart African Americans who thought of a great idea for a peaceful protest. In eat-in areas, only white people were allowed to eat at the counter. So, these four gentlemen sat there, and when they were refused service they sat there and claimed they would not leave till they were served as equally as a white man. This peaceful protest prolonged and later snowballed into the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, who played a major role in desegregating public facilities. -
The integration of bus terminals was not supported in the south, racism was fluent. James Farmer organized the Freedom Riders, a group of African American and White college students who would travel to the south by bus to promote the idea of bus integration. When they arrived in Anniston, Birmingham, and Montgomery, Alabama, white mobs attacked them. They also had the tires on their bus slit, had rocks thrown at them, and in Birmingham, they were beaten. -
There was an ongoing effort to integrate Southern Schools, but some schools would not comply. A man named James Meredith wanted to transfer to the University of Mississippi, although he has a court order allowing him to register, the governor of Mississippi would not allow it. To fight for desegregation President Kennedy ordered 500 Marshals to guard and escort James. But riots broke out and white mobs attacked, as a result, Kennedy ordered thousands of troops to help at the campus. -
A Civil Rights Bill of 1964 was being put through Congress, this bill would outlaw discrimination on the basis of race, strengthened voting rights, and desegregate schools. To publicize and support the bill Martin Luther King Jr lead this March in Washington, 200,000 supporters gathered at the capital. He also delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech here. In which he preached about an equal and better America! -
Malcolm X was a Civil Rights activist who based his fight on self-defense. He believed that the slow progress being made was unacceptable, that if they were to act more strongly and demanded equality they would receive it. He was a major influence in the movement of Civil Rights, giving speeches and defending against white society. Malcolm X encouraged African Americans to embrace their culture and fight for their right militantly. -
African Americans continued to struggle for voting rights. The Civil Rights Act was a good start but caused white people to take the matter into their own hands. They would beat and murder the African Americans who tried to register to vote. So, Martin Luther King conducted the Selma March in which the bittersweet results resulted in The Voting Rights Act of 1965 being passed which helped African Americans vote, by bypassing local officials who discriminated against African Americans. -
The Black Panthers were a group that believed in revolution, they had very militant ideals. They encouraged African Americans to take up arms and force white people to grant them equal rights. They also wanted to obtain control of major institutions in the African American community, such as schools, housing, hospitals, and law enforcement. In doing so, they would be lessening racial oppression.
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