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Civil Rights museum

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The Supreme Court ruled segregation in schools illegal. The decision changed the racial demographics of schools. Everyone can go to public school (K-12) together. The ruling stated schools needed to desegregate with deliberate speed, but there’s no date that this needeed to be completed. 10 years later (1964) less than 10% of public schools in the South were segregated The Brown vs. Board ruling did not truly enforce the end of segregation in schools, and it didn’t apply to other Jim Crow laws. But it’s the first step towards significant racial equality. People/groups in the South will start fighting for more of their rights. (i.e. Little Rock 9 (‘57) and Ruby Bridges (‘60). This is important because more people will start fighting for their rights eventually leading to desegregation everywhere not just in schools.

Brown vs. Board of Education

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MLK "I Have A Dream"

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Martin Luther King Jr, was a man who gave a very famous speech called "I Have A Dream". He dreamed for racial equality, and spoke his dream to many people of all colors and races on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963. His strong and powerful voice engaged more people to listen. His speech led to a movement of equality. It helped create the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, ending racial segregation in the United States. Today, MLK has a monument in Washington D.C. and people celebrate a holiday for him.

In Montgomery, Alabama Rosa Parks boarded a bus and sat in the first row of the African American section. After a few more stops the bus filled up and there were no more white seats but there was a white man standing so the bus driver demanded that whoever was in the 11th row had to stand up. Rosa refused to get up. The bus driver called the police and arrested her. When other blacks found out about her getting arrested they boycotted buses. Rosa Parks arrest started the Montgomery Bus Boycott but thousands of other people took part in the boycott. The boycott lasted from 1955-1956.Rosa Parks's arrest led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott which lasted for a year. During the boycott, buses lost a lot of money so the government made it a law that all buses had to be desegregated and they had to put a sign in the window saying it was illegal to have segregation on buses. This is important because during the 1950’s there was a lot of segregation but blacks took a stand and got desegregation on buses

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Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

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College students in Greensbro, North Carolina protested segregated lunch counters (diners) and restaurants. The students remained non-violent. However they weren't given service the whole time. Protesters had food poured on them and some were arrested. When businesses were impacted, Greensboro opted to make peace and desegregate After the Greensboro Sit-ins other college students got inspired and started doing them all across the South. Then there were protests against segregated stores, supermarkets, libraries, pools, and bus stations. The Greensboro Sit-ins were important because they showed the power of young people. Once the SIt-ins reached other colleges the students realized they had an impact and started protesting other things too.

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Greensboro Sit-ins

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Little Rock 9

On September 4, 1957, 9 black students desegregated Little Rock Central High School, an all white school, in Arkansas. Thier goal was to create equalityand civil rights for all americans. They eventually had to send the army to walk the black students to school because of all the violence that occured between whites and blacks. People were getting severley hurt, which is why many parents didn't want their kids to go to this school anymore. However, these students were the first African American students to enter Little Rock's Central High School, and they inspired a wave of desegregation in the United States, which led to desegregation in the south!

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Black Power Movement and Malcom X

Malcom X and the followers of the Black Power Movement call themselves the Panthers.Malcolm X’s childhood was hard and his teenage years were filled with crime which ended up with him in prison. later he realized that you couldn’t decide your race so he just wanted all races to be equal and not one to be better than others. Malcolm X and the Black Power Movement preached that blacks were powerful and worthy of a good life. They also believed that blacks should not only be equal to whites in society but they should rule society by any means necessary. all this happened in the mid 1960s in Mississippi.