CIVIL RIGHTS! Fight for them!
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The document discusses key events in the civil rights movement in the United States, including Brown v. Board of Education, integration efforts in Little Rock, Arkansas, and the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Brown v. Board of Education was a 1954 Supreme Court case that ruled segregation in public schools to be unconstitutional. In 1957, federal troops were sent to Little Rock to protect nine black students attempting to integrate a white school, facing resistance from the governor. The Montgomery Bus Boycott protested the city's policy of racial segregation on buses, led by Martin Luther King Jr. and ending with a Supreme Court ruling declaring the bus laws illegal.
CIVIL RIGHTS! Fight for them!
- 1. Prof. Ernesto Correa. COLEGIO SEMINARIO
- 2. SEGREGATION / SEPARATE BUT EQUAL • Segregation is the practice or policy of creating separate facilities within the same society for the use of a minority group
- 3. BROWN V BOARD OF EDUCATION OF TOPEKA, 1954 In September 1952 the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP) brought a court case against the Board of Education in Topeka, Kansas. In May 1954 Chief Justice Earl Warren finally announced in favour of Brown and the NAACP. Warren stated that segregated education could not be considered equal.
- 5. LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS / INTEGRATION • Integration was met with bitter resistance in some states such as Arkansas. • In 1957 the Supreme Court ordered the Governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, to let nine black students attend a white school in Little Rock. • Faubus ordered his state troops to prevent the black students from attending school. • President Eisenhower sent federal troops to protect the students and make sure that they could join the school. • The troops stayed for six weeks.
- 7. LITTLE ROCK NINE Legal methods. Supreme Court.
- 8. THE MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT: NON-VIOLENT DIRECT ACTION. • Montgomery had a local law that black people were only allowed to sit in the middle and back seats of a bus and they had to give up those seats if white people wanted them. • Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man. • Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA). Martin Luther King was its leader. • Civil rights lawyers fought Rosa Parks’ case in court. In December 1956, the Supreme Court declared Montgomery’s bus laws to be illegal.