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little rock nine
They didn't start out being known as the Little Rock Nine but now they are in America's history books together. Here is a brief glimpse at these former students and what they are doing today, 40 years after this momentus year. These nine students are unanimous in proclaiming the true heroes of the crisis at Central High School were their parents, who supported them and kept the faith that the process was right and that what they endured would give them opportunities they deserved. -
Montogomery bus boycott
Rosa pakers was arrest by not sitting in the right area on the bus. -
Greensboro sit -in
they went in a dinner that alonely served the whites. -
charlotte busing
Decided by the U.S. Supreme Court on April 20, 1971, Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education dealt with the desegregation plan adopted by Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. Chief Justice Warren Burger rendered the opinion of the court, and its decision was unanimous. The product of several years of NAACP litigation, the Swann decision lent the imprimatur of the Court to busing as a solution to inadequately desegregated public schools. -
Brown v. Bored of Education, Topeka, Kansas
the story of Brown v. Bored of Education, Which ened legal segreation in public school is one of hope and courage. When the people agreed to be plaintiffs in the case they never knew they would change history. The people who make up this story were ordinary people. they were teachers, secretaries, welders,mininster, and students who simply wanted to be treated equally.
