Civil Rights: Education

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History (Civil Rights in 1950s-60s) Mind Map on Civil Rights: Education, created by KittyG-S on 04/18/2014.
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Civil Rights: Education
  1. Brown vs Topeka Board of Education, 1954
    1. Schools were segregated and were meant to be "separate but equal". However, all-black schools were not as good and had less equipment and educated staff
      1. Linda Brown, a black child, had to walk 21 blocks to her all-black high school when there was a better, all-white one just 7 blocks away
        1. The NAACP got her father Oliver Brown (and other black parents) to try to register their children at white schools that were closer to them but they were denied it...
          1. … so they took the matter to the District Court. The Supreme Court ruled the desegregating of schools in May 1954
            1. Nothing really happened, as Eisenhower feared it wouldn't work, so in 1956 schools were organised by area rather than skin colour.
        2. Seen as a big victory for the Civil Rights Movement, the law was changed in their favour
        3. Little Rock Nine, 1957
          1. The Supreme Court had ruled the desegregation of schools three years ago, and the new organisation of schools by area one year ago
            1. Arkansas - where Little Rock Central High School was - was in the south, and the southern states made little effort to force desegregation.
              1. Orval Faubus was against the desegregation, and wanted to maintain all-white and all-black schools.
              2. Nine black students were registered at the school but on their first day, Faubus got the National Guard to prevent them getting into school.
                1. Faubus kept the National Guard there to stop them getting to school, even though Eisenhower tried to persuade him to obey the ruling.
                  1. Eventually the Nine were smuggled into school through a van. This caused an angry white mob to start fights with blacks and reporters while the police did nothing to stop them.
                    1. Because of this, Eisenhower ordered 1,100 paratroopers of the First Airburne Division to escort the Nine into school and they stayed there until November. Eisenhower took control of the National Guard who stayed to protect the Nine for a year
                2. Little Rock Nine was broadcast on TV and many Americans were shocked
                  1. This meant that many Americans had sympathy for the Nine and could see the big problems facing blacks in the 50s
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