Brown Vs. Board Of Education Solution Guide

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Brown Vs. Board Of Education Solution Guide-Brown Vs. board of education 1954 - Supreme Court decision that overturned the Plessy vs. Ferguson decision (1896); led by Chief Justice Earl Warren, the Co... urt ruled that "separate but equal" schools for blacks were inherently unequal and thus unconstitutional. The decision energized the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s. Rosa parks bus boycott - December, 1955 - In Montgomery, Alabama, she refused to give up her bus seat for a White man as required by city ordinance. It started the Civil Rights Movement and an almost nation-wide bus boycott lasting 11 months. Little rock school - Was the site of forced desegregation in 1957 when the governor of Alabama wouldn't allow the "Little Rock nine" access to the school. President Eisenhower then mobilized the 101st airborne division to force the school to admit the students. Civil right act 1957 - first federal civil rights law since reconstruction. established civil rights commission and civil rights division of the department of justice. Sit in 1960 - 4 students at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical college in Greensboro sat down at the whites-only lunch counter. The black students remained seated and would not be moved when asked to do so. They believed that the Supreme Court's Bro [Show More]

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