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The Civil Rights Movement: Brown Vs. Board Of Education

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The Civil Rights Movement was the most significant event in history. A social movement that impacted people in the United States that lasted from nineteen fifty-four until nineteen sixty-eighths when congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The goal of the Civil Rights Movement was to end racial segregation and discrimination against African-Americans. There were acts of nonviolent protest between nineteen fifty-five and nineteen sixty-eight. The forms of protest that occurred were boycotts such as the Montgomery Bus Boycott that happened in 1955 until 1956 in Alabama the little rock high school, the Greensboro sit-ins and Selma to Montgomery marches that took place in Alabama and a lot of other nonviolent …show more content…

The schools with white people would have better up to date supplies while the black schools would be less privileged and would receive less money. “Segregation of white and colored children in public schools has a detrimental effect upon the colored children. The impact is greater when it has the sanction of the law, for the policy of separating the races is usually interpreted as denoting the inferiority of the Negro group Any language in contrary to this finding is rejected. We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.” (Warren) That having separate schools for black and whites is not equal and when separating the two races. One race is going to get more than what the other race is getting and that will be unequal and not …show more content…

Their enrollment was a problem and it started the Little Rock Crisis. The nine African-American students were prevented from entering the segregated school by people who formed a blockade against the school and the Governor of Arkansas They then came back a second time with troops sent by President Eisenhower. to help protect them. The students went inside the school and were still abused verbally and physically there were being called names and spat at. According to Elizabeth Eckford one of the Little Rock Nine "Somewhere along the line, staying at Central High became an obligation. I realized that what we were doing was not for ourselves." She saying that being at that school and being physically and verbally abused it made think that she need to stay there and make the white people that went there that she was not affected by what they were doing to her and the other eight people. She felt like she need to make a statement for the black community there and all of the United States and no matter what happens you should not give up no matter what the situation is. The Little rock high schools are still up and running and is considered a historic landmark for its role in the Civil Rights

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The event that took place at Little Rock Central High School all changed and impacted many families when nine black students tried to walk in the High School (formerly was an all white-school). The very first attempt on September 4, 1957, didn't go so well due to the governor of Arkansas, Governor Faubus demanded state police and Arkansas National Guard to not allow the students to not enter the school. The next attempt was on September 23 and was escorted in the school through one of the side entrances. The students didn't stay long since the mob in front of the school found this out and threatened to riot. Then on September 25 the nine students who eventually were called Little Rock Nine escorted by federal troops entered the school for a full day of classes and continued being escorted by troops till November of the same year.

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Board of Education of Topeka case, the supreme court struck down the segregation laws in schooling. Needless to say white people of the south were not happy. A town in Arkansas called Little Rock decided they were going to do everything within their power to keep their schools, including Little Rock Central High school from being integrated. When nine black students, soon known as the Little Rock Nine, first tried to attend the school they were barred from entrance by protesters, and the National Guard, who had been called in by Governor Orval Faubus. Eight of the students had showed up together and had left when they saw the extent of the protesters.

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Little Rock Nine began in 1957, when a group of nine African American students wanted to enroll in an all white High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. This may have caused a crisis but they felt they had the right to get an education they deserved and segregation shouldn't stop them. As Racial Segregation still occurred at the time, African American students were not offered the same opportunities as white people. They didn’t have the same education system nor proper education environment fit to properly teach. Classrooms were small in size compared to the white schools, textbooks were used and the cafeteria’s barely had any room to fit everyone.

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African Americans have had a long struggle to gain rights, but Little Rock Nine was a great deal for the Civil Rights Movement. On September 1957, nine African American students enrolled in a formerly all-white school - Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Their integration drastically impacted the Civil Rights Movement and this is what is known in history as Little Rock Nine. The Supreme Court ruling with Cooper vs. Aaron case in 1958 displeased the Governor of Arkansas. Governor Faubus could not pass legislation undermining the court 's ruling in Brown versus the Board of Education.

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The crowd outside of the schools chanted “Two, four, six, eight… We ain’t gonna integrate!”(Little Rock Nine - Encyclopedia of Arkansas). Those people were against sharing the facility with African Americans and refused to have them there. The teens had to experience a huge crowd of people yelling against when they were trying to integrate. The Little Rock Nine had to deal with the conflicts and acts upon them with correct behavior on their side.

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In 1957, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas’s decision, segregation in public education violated the Fourteen Amendment, but Central High School refused to desegregate their school. Even though various school districts agreed to the court ruling, Little Rock disregarded the board and did not agree to desegregate their schools, but the board came up with a plan called the “Blossom plan” to form integration of Little Rock High despite disputation from Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus. Desegregating Central high encountered a new era of achievement of black folks into the possibility of integrating public schools, and harsh resistance of racial integration. Although nine black students were admitted into Little Rock harsh violence and

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First off, the governor closed all the schools in Little Rock, so no one could attend. Not only were all the students greatly affected, but the families of the Little Rock Nine had the more major punishments. Many of them were quickly fired from their jobs to reduce more conflicts with business. Once the schools were finally opened back up, each of the nine students were separated throughout the different schools, which caused even more awareness that schools needed to become desegregated. The impact that the Little Rock Nine had on today is the fact schools are all officially desegregated.

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Have you ever thought about how we got integrated schools? There were many things that led up to what we now see as normal today. Something like education for African Americans can seem so simple today, but seem so complicated for people in past years. One of the things that helped us with integrated schools was a few people who were called the Little Rock Nine. Central High was one of the first schools to be integrated.

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This blatant defiance by the governor to allow the students to attend the school forced President Dwight Eisenhower to send U.S. troops to protect and allow these students to enter Central High. This was a victory and step towards racial equality but it had its pros and cons. The students were ultimately able to get and education but one wasn’t able to finish at Central High because she had gotten into and altercation with one of the white males at school. Along with this there was a lot of hatred towards the decision to integrate which made the experience and the school very unhealthy

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