Question

civil rights:
• 1954 civil rights movement begins
• Started with brown vs. board
• 15th amendment challenge segregation
• 1965 ended civil rights

• The decision overturned the pressy v. Ferguson (1896) “separate but equal”

• At first president Eisenhower left enforcement of brown up to states and did not enforce the decision.

• 1957

• Arkansas governor Orval Faubus called the natural guard to keep black students from enrolling in little rocks central high school.

• Sent the army to force integration for the black students.

• 1955 rosa parks arrested for disobeying on Alabama laws requiring segregation on city buses sparked the Montgomery bus boycott.

• Martin Luther king organized a 381-day boycott of the bus system to protest segregation.

• The boycott led to integration of city buses and to the rise of MLKJ as the leader of black civil rights

• MLK non-violent approach inspired other groups to act.

• 1960 students from NC led a sit-in at a segregated lunch.

• 1961 “freedom riders” rode buses throughout the south to test whether integration.

• Freed riders faced arrest and violence.

Answer 1

these are my notes from today I thought they might be helpful to someone