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The Civil Rights Movement: Brown Vs. Board Of Education

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Civil Rights The Civil Rights Movement began when African Americans started speaking up because they were not being treated fairly. After the Civil War the 13th, 14th and, 15th amendments were supposed to guarantee equal rights for African Americans in the United States but that was not the case. There was a court case called the Plessy V. Ferguson. This court case didn’t help Blacks at all because the Supreme Court ruled in favor of it. This made it racial discrimination become a big problem again in the South. President Roosevelt was elected into office while this was all happening, but he was too afraid to try and make big changes that supported African Americans because he was afraid that he would lose his southern white supporters. …show more content…

Board of Education case this combined several cases of school discrimination into one big case. Eventually, after more than two years and many studies on if racial discrimination played a role in how students learned the court decided that having separate schools for Whites and African Americans was violating part of the Constitution. Some schools and states didn’t think this was right or fair, they wanted to keep schools separated. One state that this issue was really big in was Arkansas. On the first day of school, the National Guard was at the school and stopped Black students from entering and there was a crowd of people who were yelling and spitting on these students for trying to get in. After a while federal troops were sent and allowed these students to get in but, just because they were allowed into the school didn’ mean that it was better for these students. For the rest of the year they had to deal with white kids bullying …show more content…

Blacks decided to do these sit-ins because they were a way of non-violent protest and they were trying to keep non-violent. These sit-ins gained a lot of national attention, which is what they wanted. One more major event was called freedom rides. The Freedom Riders took a bus though the south and would try to use white only facilities. They wanted these rides to be peaceful and nonviolent, but some whites didn’t like what they were doing. The people who didn’t support them would meet the buses when they stopped to beat up the people and one time started the bus on fire. The blacks were not going to stop though even if they were put in jail because they felt what they were doing was more important and it didn’t matter that they had to go to

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