BP #3 - Mini Research(Segregation in America in the 1950s)

In the 1950s in America, Black and White people were segregated. black people could not use the same building entrance as a white person, eat in the same cafe, sit in the same taxi or use the same drinking fountain. The south was a fully segregated society, school, restaurant, hotel, train, elevator, hospital and church even though the law said every people had equal right. The segregation became widely used after Civil War because there were no more slaves after civil war.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_segregation_in_the_United_States
http://voices.yahoo.com/history-segregation-america-467517.html?cat=37


The Civil Rights Movement


In the 1950s a Baptis Martin Luther King became the leader of the Civil Rights Movement. He believed that peaceful protest without violence was the best way to get their rights.


In 1951, the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) along with Thurgood Marshall decided to fight for the rights of African American children They believed that segregated schools dehumanized African Americans just as much as slavery had done, and used the case of a seven year old girl from Topeka, Kansas, Linda Brown. She was forced to travel many miles away from her home in order to go to her black-only school, even though a white-only school existed close to her home. The U.S. Supreme Court finally ruled in 1954 that schools in all states had to be "desegregated" or integrated. This court decision sent the message that segregation in America would not be tolerated.


Rosa Parks, a 43 year old black woman was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, becuase she sit on the seat for white people in the bus and she refused to give u her seat to white man. Civil Rights leaders, Dr. Martin Luther King, organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Black peole and others who supported equality agreed not to use the buses, the bus company had reduced 65% of its income for eight months. Eight months later, the Supreme Court decided, based that bus segregation violated the constitution.

http://www.historyonthenet.com/Slave_Trade/civilrights.htm

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