The Civil Rights Movement: Brown V. Board Of Education

If the Civil Rights Movement showed anything, it showed the power of people. The Civil Rights Movement was the journey blacks took to earn their rights in society and with the government. This movement started in 1954 when blacks begun to get arrested on purpose due to Jim Crow Laws. Jim Crow Laws were any laws that were discriminatory against blacks. These laws targeted blacks in effort to keep segregation in place. The Civil Rights Movement was the road it took to surpass that and end segregation. The movement seemed to come to an end when a true civil rights leader and activist when Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by James Earl Ray. Many known events and people from the Civil Rights Movement are Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks,

The case opened up when a man named Oliver Brown asked the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) for legal assistance when his daughter had been denied enrollment in a local all-white school in Springfield, Missouri. Both Oliver Brown and the NAACP helped get the Supreme Court to rule segregated schools to be unconstitutional. Oliver Brown, the NAACP, and the plaintiffs’ who spoke in court all worked to eliminate segregation in schools, which played a huge role in ending segregation. The United States Administrative Office explains how the plaintiffs helped the judges realize this case was too big for the U.S. District Court, that it required more powerful judgement due to the affect the ruling would cause, “Although it acknowledged some of the plaintiffs'/plaintiffs claims, a three-judge panel at the U.S. District Court that heard the cases ruled in favor of the school boards. The plaintiffs then appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.” Once the plaintiffs, got the District’s decision, it was time to get a more wide-spread one. With determination and strength, the NAACP kept fighting for an end to segregation. After the District and Supreme Court ruled that school segregation was unconstitutional, the Supreme Court first said that states could make their own plans to desegregate, many states’ plan was to not have a plan and to keep segregation. The

In Little Rock, Arkansa, the best performing students of color were chosen to enroll at Little Rock Central High School. The group of nine chosen were to be later known as the Little Rock 9. Even if the government had chosen children to integrate schools, that did not mean states and governors were willing to accept them without a fight and the kids weren’t meet with smiling faces, “In addition to facing physical threats, screams, and racial slurs from the crowd, Arkansas Governor Orval M. Faubus intervened, ordering the Arkansas National Guard to keep the nine African American students from entering the school. Faced with no other choice, the “Little Rock Nine” gave up their attempt to attend Central High School which soon became the center of a national debate about civil rights, racial discrimination and State's rights.” Governor Orval Faubus is one of the many people with power trying to stop the government from desegregating schools. He ordered the National Guard to keep nine teenagers out of a high school. The reason this became a national debate of civil rights was the talk about how much struggle was to come with desegregation. The Little Rock crisis was a cry for help in the Civil Rights Movement as it managed to get the government involved, in addition to creating massive change, “The Little Rock crisis was the first