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Brown vs. Board
This was a big supreme court event. It took place in Topeka Kansas. This was about racial segregation in public schools. People wanted to get ride of it but others did not. Lots of groups were formed to fight this. One group that went to extreme measures to stop desegrigation and they were the Ku Klux Klan. -
The Start
The Civil rights movement took place from 1955-1968. This was the start of desegrigation of the south. -
Chalenge to Social Segrigation
The blacks in tthe south had lots of problems that the whole nation new about. To try to stop this some blacks in Mongomery Ala. decided to boycott city buses due to there policys. The boycotts lasted 381 days. -
Emmet Till
Emmet was a black boy from Chicago came to vist family in the south. He got beaten up a few times. Then he turns up dead and they find out he was kid napped and brutally beaten. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa parks was arrested for sitting on a bus in the south and a white man got on and she did not move and the whites did not like that so she was arrested for it. -
Spotlight on the south
The south gets attention from the President . One of the main people was Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth. President John Kennedy addresed the problem in the sout before he was assasinated and Lyndon Johnson took over -
Sit ins
In Greensboro N.C there was a big incident when college age black kids did sit ins at many different lunch counters to challenge the laws of segregation between the races. Many organizations were formed like Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and NAACP. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King began joing black groups to protest the segragation he gave a bunch of speeches like I have a Dream. He was a man of peaceful protests but towards the end of segrigation someone assinated him. -
Voting Rights
In the 1960's it became allowed for some blacks to vote for goverment powers. There were some problems with this because the Whites did not approve of the blacks Voting. -
Thanks to:
Scholastic Civil Rights Era article
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The Legacy
Years after the Brown vs Board still less than one percent of blacks were in public schools.
