Civil Rights Events Blog

This is an article about the problems with segregation in the board of education. The argument in the Brown V. Board of Education was that the segregation of schools was against the 14th amendment. This was the ending of the "separate but equal", and allowed the desegregation of schools.

 

After the Rosa Parks incident, there was a boycott of all busses, and blacks refuse to take the bus. During the time, they carpooled, and walked everywhere. the loss in money for the bus station and government was so great that they were force to change the laws and give blacks equal rights on the bus.  

In the little rock school crisis, small black children were forced to endure harsh interviews and ridiculous amounts of harassment because they wanted to attend a white only school.

During the times of segregation, there were a large amount of non violent protest and sit-ins. Blacks who participated in these were vigorously beaten with no consequences to the attackers.

One of the biggest protests was the one in Birmingham,. During this time, people were harassed so badly because they wanted to vote, and it got to the point where they would spray blacks away with fire hoses, and even beat many to death.

 

 

During the march on Washington, thousands of people showed up to Washington to show their dismay and refused to leave. In this very place is where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech.