museum project

THE CIVIL WAR CHILDRENS MUSEUM

Brown vs. Board was the first major step in desegreation, with the help of the NAACP. The NAACP brought a number of cases to court that challenged school segregation. one of them being in Topeka, Kansas, when Reverend Oliver Brown sued the state for the right to send his daughter, Lind Brown, to a white neighborhood school rather than a black school much farther away. this case and 4 others found their way to the supreme court in DC and were joined under the name Brown vs. Board of Education. Lawyers from the NAACP, led by Thurgood Marshall, argued in front of the supreme court justices against John W. Davis, who argued on behalf of the states. After a long fight, the supreme court deemed school segregation unconstitutional and the Plessy vs. Fergusen case, which claimed "seperate but equal", was cancelled.

brown vs. board of education

This is what a segregated classroom looked like

This is a picture of an old article that was published after the court case was won

This is a picture of Oliver and Linda Brown and her fatherleaving the school after they got denied

Rosa Parks was an active member in a group call the NAACP, a group that strongly opposed segregation. One day after work she was sitting in the first row of the black section, the bus was filling up quickly and soon there was no room. A white man got in and the rest of the people in Rosa's row got up but she refused. She got arrested after the but driver called the police, and the NAACP in Mongomery, Alabama decided to boycott the buses. So that's what the black people in montgomer did for over a year. after that year, the city and local buses were desgregated.

Rosa parks and the mongomery bus boycott

This is a picture of rosa parks mugshot after she got arrested

This link will take you to an article about the boycott

This is a picture of the bus rosa parks got arrested on

The March on Washington was planned by civil rights leaders to demand passage of the civil rights bill, school integration, and an end to job discrimination. A quarter of a million people gathered near the Lincoln Memorial and movie stars and singeres entertained the crowd while the people waited. Many preachers and politicias spoke, the last speaker being Martin Luther King Jr. MLK had a speech prepared but then somone shouted, "tell about the dream!" and the planned speech was put aside. Everyone in the crowd could her King's deep voice ring out as he spoke.

the march on washington and the "i have a dream" speech

This is a picture of the croud gathered at the Washingon Monument and Lincoln memorial for the speech

This is a link to the transcript of MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech

This is a picture of MLK and the crowd gatherend at the Lincoln Memorial