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The Civil Rights Movement: Desegregation In The 1960's

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Have you ever wondered what started school integration? Imagine having to be bullied only because of your skin color. Not being able to get an education just because you're a different race than everybody else. Desegregation was very hard subject for americans in the 1950’s and 1960’s. Fortunately, there were people willing to fight about this. African Americans were not welcome in schools with white people for a very long time, until some people started battling for a change. The civil rights movement was a very important time in history for african americans. Many people died suffered but held on to hope to be able to have equality for everyone. During this time in history, new laws were created. Laws that somehow had equality in it, but …show more content…

A high school that was an all white students school. They were bullied every time these students tried to do anything: they were thrown books, even trash for just trying to go to school. The governor at the time even called the guard to prevent them from going to school. Despite all of this “bullying” these nine students showed bravery by just showing up. They changed the education possibilities for black students later on. Before the Supreme Court's decision of 1957, many states across the country had mandatory segregation laws. These laws required for both african american students and white people to go to separate schools. There was so much resistance about black and whites going to different schools that there was a second decision known as brown II, telling schools to integrate students no matter their race or ethnicity. Little Rock Central High School was obligated to integrate nine black students in response to the Brown II law. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored …show more content…

There was a similar one in Tougaloo, Mississippi. In the spring of 1961, nine Tougaloo college students, members of the NAACP Youth Council, went and sat at the Jackson public library. This library was only open to whites at the time. The students were arrested, held in jail overnight, and the next day led to a police riot against the crowd outside the courthouse in support. One of the victim says that were actually sixteen students involved. She says that only nine went into the library, and the other seven stayed outside to look out for cars, media and

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A walkout that changed African American students lives at Adkin High School happened in Kinston, North Carolina(NCPEDIA). Adkin High School was built in 1928 for African American kids that weren’t allowed to go to school because of segregation(NCPEDIA). Even though the high schoolers got to got to school did not mean that they had a healthy learning space. At local white high schools, students got brand new books but at Adkin High School the students got

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While the NAACP early court victories showed that they were a force to be reckoned with, many individuals, including the group itself, believe the greatest court victory took place in 1954 when Thurgood Marshall and a group of attorneys representing the NAACP won the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483. This case ruled that the policy of “separate but equal”, decided in the Plessy v Ferguson case was in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution and that school’s were to be desegregated immediately (NAACP NAACP Legal History). Although the law required schools to integrate, many schools decided to close down entirely. We witness this in Irv Goodman’s article “Public Schools Died Here” as we see a county school in Virginia shut down completely to stop the school from

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But after this event, the nation opened their eyes and it became a courageous activism for the young generations. According to participators of the events, the demonstrations were non-violent. These events took place in Birmingham, Alabama, USA. In this city, employment conditions were awful and working hours were cruel. Also in social life, blacks couldn’t go any fairgrounds, only on “colored days”.

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but it is a thousand times better compared to not having equal rights as whites, not being about to be heard, and being able to be protected equally. Since 1964 discrimination was banned based on race, religion, color, sex, and 9 Brown v. Board of Education nationality. Also since 2004 schools in the south are more integrated than ever, whites and blacks are working together phenomenally. According to American Civil Liberties Union “The goals of integration and of a more just society that inspired that earlier generation of reformers and

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The NAACP let in 9 black students at Little Rock and they were called the Little Rock Nine. Even though many people fought to not have them there, President Eisenhower fought to keep them there. This led to an uproar from the community and a lot of violence. At one point the governor even has to call out the national guard and the students had to be escorted to class by police. By the end of the film, only one black student is left to graduate

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The segregation of schools based on a students skin color was in place until 1954. On May 17th of that year, during the Supreme Court case of Brown v. Board of Education, it was declared that separate public schools for black and white students was unconstitutional. However, before this, the segregation of schools was a common practice throughout the country. In the 1950s there were many differences in the way that black public schools and white public schools were treated with very few similarities. The differences between the black and white schools encouraged racism which made the amount of discrimination against blacks even greater.

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For the next few months, the African American students attended school under armed supervision. Even so, they faced physical and verbal abuse from their white peers’’(Source B).This demonstrates how people got together and protested along with the African American students on how the segregationists were being racist and treating them like they were nonexistent. This also shows how the segregationists were ignoring the fact that others were disagreeing with them, but they were mainly focused on being inconsiderate and treating the ‘’Little Rock Nine’’ poorly because they were Negros. After All, the Little Rock Showdown displayed how the segregationists treated the Negro students unequally because they were just as qualified to go to school with white

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