The Civil Rights Movement: Brown Vs. Board Of Education

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

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

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