U.S. History

Lenin Is Born. Lol

In 1954, most of the United States was racially segregated in the schools. Segregation was made legal by Plessy v. Ferguson who said that segregated public places were constitutional as long as the black and white places were equal in treatment to each other. Brown said that Topeka's racial segregation violated the Constitution's Equal Protection Clause because the city's black and white schools were not completely equal to each other and never would be. The court ignored what he was saying by ruling that the segregated public schools were equal enough to be constitutional under the Plessy law. Brown took his case to the Supreme Court, which had a conferenece and then reviewed all the school segregation actions together. Finally,with the help of Chief Justice Earl Warren, the Court made a unanimous decision made by Warren himself. The decision said that racial segregation of kids in public schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Brown had won.
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In August 1955, fourteen-year-old Chicagoan Emmett Till visited relatives in Mississippi. At Bryant's Grocery and Meat Market, a store owned by a white couple, Roy and Carolyn Bryant, Till is said to have whistled at Mrs. Bryant. Several days later, on Aug. 28, Till was kidnapped, brutally beaten, shot, and dumped in the Tallahatchie River, his mutilated corpse barely identifiable. Roy Bryant and his half-brother, J. W. Milam, were arrested for the murder. The all-white jury in Sumner, Mississippi, took just over an hour to reach their verdict to acquit them.
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On December 1, 1955, Parks broke the law. She took an empty seat on a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama. In 1955, segregation laws in some of the states separated the seats for blacks and whites in public places and on busses. Rosa Parks wanted racial equality by refusing to move when the driver asked her to give her seat to a white man. She sat quietly while the driver called the police. Rosa parks said that “People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true,The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.”
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On September 4th, nine students were arranged to be taken in two police cars to the school. The students weren't allowed into the school, and were returned home safely. But one of the students, Elizabeth Eckford, didn't get the message. When she arrived at the school, she was met by a National Guardsman, who wouldn't let her in. She was forced to walk 100 yards to a bus stop, on the way being followed by a mob threatening to kill her and cursing at her.

In the early 1960'a, a non-violent protest was done by young African-American students at a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. It sparked a sit-in movement that soon spread to college towns throughout the region. Many of the protesters were arrested for trespassing, disorderly conduct or disturbing the peace, their actions made a big impact. Woolworth's and other schools were forced to take out their segragation.

On September 15, a bomb exploded on Sunday morning before church started at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Many black people went their and sometimes used it to discuss about the segragation. That day four young girls were killed and many other people injured.

On the 30th of January a civil rights protest ened up being a shooting with people dead.