Brown v. Board of Education (1954) overruled Plessy vs. Ferguson. The court declared separate but equal is never equal and it required all the schools to integrate.
Rosa Parks, the NAACP, and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
The bus boycott started after Rosa Parks refused to sit on the back of the bus. The Montgomery bus boycott started on December 1, 1955.it was when African Americans of Montgomery, Alabama decided they would boycott the city buses until they could sit were they wanted instead of having to sit on the back of the bus. Martin Luther King Jr.’s house was bombed trying to stop the bus boycott. Also they had many meetings trying to stop the bus boycott. The boycott was stopped on November 13, 1956 when the U.S. Supreme Court declared segregation on buses unconstitutional.
Elizabeth Eckford of the Little Rock 9- integrating Central High Elizabeth Eckford was a member of the Little Rock 9 who were African-Americans who enrolled in Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. The whites didn’t want them there because the school had been for whites only. After the Brown vs. Board of Education the NAACP helped them enroll. Even the governor sent in the National Guard to keep them out of the school. But eventually the president of the United States sent in the 101st airborne to protect the Little Rock 9. Eventually the African-Americans attended school but they were still harassed.
Schools are still not integrated and parents protest in the 1960's.
Emma C. & Laura (Deborah's Design Team)
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