Dbq Civil Rights Movement 1954-1968

Africans Americans weren’t getting much respect or equality with the whites since 1619, the year when the first African slaves were shipped to Virginia. In 1954, the civil rights movement of African Americans to achieve equal rights such as, housing, jobs and education. Many other events during the civil rights movement timeline, 1954-1968, made the movement stronger. Such as the Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat and got arrested in 1955, which started the Montgomery bus boycott by Martin Luther King Jr. The civil rights movement activists used many legal actions such as how segregation ended in public school in Little Rock, Arkansas and how whites were against it, non-violent approaches, like how customers from a sit-in in Wichita, Kansas, started to protest and another one in Montgomery, Alabama, and how some black activists programs used direct actions, to stand out during the movement.
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In Doc #1, from a newspaper published in 1954 by The Bee, the headlines says Segregation in Public Schools Ended by Court. Thanks to the Brown vs. Board of Education decision, public schools were desegregated. This is a great success because it’s a step forward that they are receiving some equality. African Americans were receiving very low education from the poor conditions of their schools and supplies. With white public school, they will be more likely to do something good in their futures. In Doc #3, from the book The long shadow of Little Rock by Daisy Bates, it talks about how one of the The Little Rock Nine students, Elizabeth Eckford, going to attend a newly desegregated school, Little Rock Central High