BLACK CLASSROOM WHITE CLASSROOM

1954-Topeka, Kansas

Linda Brown

8 year old

Has to walk 2 miles in order to attend a “Black School”

Wants to attend the “White” School that is ½ mile away

Brown family takes decision to court

Decision by Warren Court Judicial Activism-

Supreme Court will solve social issues if someone else won’t

Schools should be desegregated “With All Deliberate Speed”

Thurgood Marshall

1955-Montgomery, AL

Rosa Parks sits down on a bus

As the bus fills, she needs to move to the back of the bus!

She doesn’t-She is arrested w/$10 fine

Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. organizes a boycott

How?? Churches

King was arrested and held for 2 weeks

Boycott went on for 381 days

In the end, Montgomery finally allowed bus riders to sit where they wanted & city starts to integrate!

Money, Mississippi

Till was vacationing, originally from Chicago

Whistled at a white woman

3 days later, kidnapped, beaten, shot, thrown in the river.

2 men arrested, all found innocent by an all white jury

Roy Bryant + J. W. Milam interviewed by Look magazine

9 Black students want to attend Little Rock High in Arkansas.

Governor OrvalFaubus Orders National Guard

to prevent the students from entering.

Ike sends in US army (101st Airborne) to escort and protect the students

1958-School was canceled all year

1959-School was integrated!!

This is the first Civil Rights bill since Reconstruction.

It became a federal crime to prevent someone from voting.

Poll Taxes/Literacy Tests

Not very successful!!

Thurmond’s Filibuster!

Allowed the Federal Govt. to inspect polling places

Became a crime to anyone obstructing the federal registration process

Keep Records of all voters…

Longest filibuster in US history

125 hours & 31 minutes

1960 - Greensboro, NC

4 black college students from NC A&T wanted lunch @ Woolworth’s

They were denied so they just sat there.

Day 2 - 27 people just sat

Day 3 - 300 people sat

Day 4 - 1000 people sat