Jeremy Nezaria

Civil Rights Movement Progress

Progress
We conclude that in the field of public education, the Segregation in the schooling system is no longer legal. of separate but doctrine equal has no place. Separate education facilities are inherently unequal. Supreme Court

This is the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the case of Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education on May 17th, 1954. Resistance

This is a picture of the National Guard preventing 9 students from attending a white high school after the ruling of the Brown v. Topeka Board of Education case.

After the Brown v Topeka Board trial, Governor Orval Faubus ordered the National Guard to prevent black kids from attending white high school in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Jeremy Nezaria

Progress Rosa Parks refused to move for a white man on a bus, igniting the Montgomery Bus Boycott. This is a picture of Rosa Parks refusing to sit in the colored section of the bus.

Resistance
This is a picture of Rosa Parks being put in jail to prevent her from performing anymore rebellious acts.

As a result of Rosa Parks refusal to move, she was arrested and thrown in jail for her act.

Jeremy Nezaria

Progress
Freshman students in a diner in Greensboro refused to move from their seats when they were denied service at the whites only bench.

Resistance

As a result of the first Greensboro sit-ins, other sit-ins were influenced and were met with resistance by the police and government.

Jeremy Nezaria

Progress
Nine students are being protected by the United States Army as a result of the National Guard blockade assembled by Governor Orval Faubus.

Resistance
Due to actions by the Legislature and Governor of the State opposing desegregation, and to threats of mob violence resulting therefrom, respondents were unable to attend the school until troops were sent and maintained there by the Federal Government for their protection This is the plaintiffs position in the Cooper v. Aaron case which Governor Faubus and several followers attempted to postpone the ruling of the Brown v. Topeka Board of Education ruling.

Jeremy Nezaria

Progress

This is a picture of a black girl named Ruby Bridges being escorted by US Marshalls into a white school.

Resistance
Every morning this group of about forty women shouted obscene and rude comments towards Ruby as she entered school.

Jeremy Nezaria

Progress Outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion or national origin in hotels, motels, restaurants, theaters, and all other public accommodations engaged in interstate commerce; exempted private clubs without defining the term private (Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)

Resistance
After the Civil Rights act was enforced, a man by the name of James Earl Ray shot and killed Martin Luther King.