Civil Rights Movement in the USA

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The Civil Rights Movement in the USA

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History of the USA
The Civil Rights Movement in the USA

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Protestors carrying placards at a Black Lives Matter demonstration in New York City
28 November 2014
A group of demonstrators yell in front of police officers during a protest march on West Florissant Avenue in Ferguson, Mo. on August 9, 2015. 

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Protesters took part in a Black Lives Matter rally in Seattle on Apr. 15, 2017

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Dr Martin Luther King
Malcolm X


Rosa Parks

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Students shouting at African American student Elizabeth Eckford, as she tries to pass through the lines of National Guardsmen in an effort to gain entrance to Little Rock's (Ark.) Central High School.

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Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division escort the Little Rock Nine students into the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Ark.

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5.1: incident in Little Rock (Arkansas, 1957)
  • the Supreme Court ruled that segregation in schools is unconstitutional and must me abolished.
  • The state of Arkansas must obey the decision by the supreme court.
  • Governor Faubus of Arkansas must execute that order. (= make it happen) and allow colored students to go to white schools.

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Faubus cleverly tried to avoid this order by the S.C.
In short he reasoned that he had two conflicting tasks:
  • end segregation
  • keep order and prevent riots

  • I can't do one without breaking the other.
  • keeping order is more important therefore I can not end segregation (which will cause riots)


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Faubus disobeyed the Supreme Court.

Now the president (Eisenhower) acted. He ordered Faubus to end segregation.
Faubus: okay, then it is your responsibility when people are killed. 

Eisenhower then sent the Federal army to enforce the end of segregation and protect the black students in school

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