HST 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Little Rock, Arkansas, Montgomery Improvement Association, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
27 Mar 2017
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Participation of liberal whites and media coverage provides funds and exposure. *the civil rights movement was a product of large-scale political and social forces that had been percolating for a long time. Was not a product of one organization or one person; it was a community-based mass movement that drew support from a myriad of people and organizations. Brown v. the board of education of topeka, kansas (1954) Oliver brown"s daughter, had to travel far distances to a black school (when they had a white school in the neighborhood) Supreme court unanimously rules that separate educational facilities were inherently unequal because they deprive african americans of equal protection of the law ) -> violation of the 14th amendment. Brown ii (1995) ruled that local school boards had to desegregate with all deliberate speed : many southern states ignore the brown ruling. 1957: 9 black children try to attend the all-white central high school in little rock,
