the 1960s experience

1960's expirence

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Little Rock Nine

Little Rock Nine had 9 students who had above-average skills and performed better academically. The nine black kids who lived in Little Rock Arkansas were put into an all-white school to give them more and better resources to be better educated than other blacks. On the first day, they were attacked by whites and racist people from the public. The next day after president Eisenhower heard about this he was frustrated and sent in federal protection with national guards men

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The Selma marches were created due to the death of a teenage black boy and they were gonna march to the capital of Alabama to protest this. But on their first attempt, they were gonna cross the bridge but they were stopped by sheriffs and police and others to stop them. In the end, many were dead and others were wounded. This caught the attention of the president and he sent national guardsmen with equipment to help protect the marches to the capital.

Selma marches

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The Freedom Riders were a group of people ranging from 16 to 85 made up of black people and whites who rode interstate buses to test if they cared if whites and blacks sat together. They rode from Washington D.C. to New Orleans to protest the segregation between interstate buses and public facilities like restrooms and PUBLIC parks. One day they were on the bus riding then they were attacked and fire bombed by the white group Called the KKK, a group of whites who didn't want to have equal rights of black and thought that segregation was good.

Freedom Riders

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