The Civil Rights Movement: Vann Woodward

The Civil Rights Movement is also known as the “Second Reconstruction”, which was coined by a historian named Vann Woodward. The Civil Rights Movement started in 1954, and it was a movement that was started by disgruntled and irritated African Americans that were tired of having less rights than the Whites. The movement consist of mostly nonviolent acts. The Civil Rights Movement went on to last until the late 1960’s, but a lot of the key parts to the movement came from the 1950’s, such as Brown vs. Board of Education, Rosa Parks, Little Rock, etc. The Civil Rights Movement impacted the United States by changing the whole outlook on life when it comes to the perception of race and it all started in the great decade of the 1950’s. In the well-known

The front half was reserved for the whites and the back half was reserved for the blacks, however, if the front half is full then the metaphorical “line” moves and it forces the African Americans to move if a white person needs a seat. On March 2nd, 1955, a teenager girl named Claudette Colvin didn’t abide by the rules and was arrested for not moving when asked. No one talks about Claudette Colvin because she was a fifteen-year-old, pregnant girl, and people wrote it off. However, nine months later on December 1, 1955, the world famous African-American woman, Rosa Parks was in the same position as Claudette Colvin, and this time, it started something. Rosa Parks refused to move and she was eventually arrested. Parks used her phone call to call E.D. Nixon, who was a well-known black leader, and he bailed her out of

This is the first incident since the 1954 Supreme Court decision towards Brown vs. Board of Education. The nine students were recruited by the Arkansas NAACP as they determined to see which students had the strength to handle this. The group of nine students are known as the “Little Rock Nine.” The nine students arrived for the first day of school at Central High on September 4, 1957. All but one arrived together, driven by Daisy Bates, who was one of the people that recruited the kids to go to the school. The one child that didn’t get the ride was Eckford, because she didn’t have a phone in her house. On the same day, the Governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus called in the National Guard to prevent the black students to enter the school. When the President of the United States of America, Dwight D. Eisenhower, heard of this, he sent federal troops to help escort nine children inside the school. The nine students didn’t start school until three weeks after they originally planned to. The students received a ton of bullying especially Melba Patillo. She was beaten and had acid thrown at her face, which resulted in