Civil rights museum

Civil rights museum

By Claudia Corsentino

Little Rock Nine

Greensboro Sit-ins

Rosa Parks and the Bus Boycott

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The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine black students that were selected to attend Central High which was the largest high school in Little Rock. The students were selected to go Central High to help to desegregate schools. On September 3, 1957 they arrived at the school and were met by angery mobs.

Little Rock Nine

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This picture shows how mad people were that black students were being allowed to go to Central High. The image also shows that the students who were selected to go to Central High had to be people who could stay calm even when other people are yelling at them

When Little Rock Nine arrived at Central High they were met by an angry mob of people and Governor Faubus sent the National Guard to keep Little Rock Nine out of the school. On September 20, 1957, Governor Faubus was ordered to let Little Rock Nine into the school but he refused so President Eisenhower sent 1,000 troops to let Little Rock Nine into the school.

After the school year ended all high schools in Little Rock were closed for the 1958-59 school year so they would not have to integrate. Schools reopened in August 1959 but were not fully integrated until 1971.

On December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks was arrested for not give her seat to a white passenger on a bus in Montgomery. After Rosa Parks was arrested a little know minister named Martin Luther King Jr formed a group called the Montgomery Improvment Association (MIA) which organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott to stop segregated buses.

Rosa Parks and the Bus Boycott.

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Rosa Parks and the Bus Boycott

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On December 5, 1955, the Montgomery Bus Boycott started and 99 percent of African Americas stopped riding buses. Instead of riding the bus people walked or biked everywhere and started carpools to help the elderly. After 382 day the bus boycott ended because the bus company lost thousands of dollars and on November 23, 1956, the Supreme Court made segregated buses unconstitutional.

The image shows how all black passengers on the bus had to ride in the back of the bus but if there were not enough seats in the front of the bus for white passengers then a black passenger would have to give their seat to the white passenger and move to a further back seat.

Rosa Parks had been involved with an organization called NAACP for 12 years and she was arrested on December 1, 1955, for not giving up her seat on a bus. After Rosa Parks was arrested MIA organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott which started the following Monday after Rosa Parks was arrested and 99 percent of African Americans stopped riding buses.

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Greenboro Sit-ins

In 1960, Greensboro, North Carolina, four black college students sat at a whites-only lunch counter and the waitress refused to serve them so they stayed there for the rest of the day. The next day 19 more students joined the sit ins after that 85 more students joined the sit ins and all of the protesters refused to leave until they were served or draged out. Eventully the sit ins started to lose money and had to choose between losing money or make peace with Afrcan Americas.

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Greensboro Sit-ins

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Sit-in protesters had to stay nonviolent no matter what even when people would dump ketchup and mustard onto their heads but sometimes when people would be dragged out of the sit-in they would hold onto the lunch counter not wanting to leave.

Sit-in protesters had developed a list of things that you should and should not do when protesting. The things that you should do are always be friendly at the counter, always sit straight facing the counting, and never move until they were served or dragged out. The things that you should not do are strike back or yell back if attacked, block entrances, or hold conversations.

When the four black students sat at the lunch counter a black waitress told them "Fellows like you make our race look bad" and refused to serve them so the students stayed for the rest of the day and promised that they would come back the next day. the next day 19 more students joined the sit-ins and soon more students started doing sit-ins across the South and even some white students started joining the sit-ins.