The Civil Rights Movement

The Civil Rights Movement
The civil rights movement was the time in America in which Blacks and other minorities started getting more independence and more equal rights. This movement requiredseveral courageous leaders and many life changing events occurred in order for America to become the integrated nation that it is today. A lot of protests and boycotts took place but they were usuallynon-violent, which the minorities discovered worked the best. Throughout this period in time schools, public places and other everyday places slowly but surely became integrated.
One of the first majorevents that happened was the Brown v. Board of Education case. Oliver Brown, who was an African American, had a daughter. The school at which she attended was far from her house and in order to getthere she had to pass by an unruly neighborhood which she was uncomfortable walking through. There was a school right across the street from her house but since the rule was “separate but equal isconstitutional” she could not attend it because it was a white only school. Her father complained and the case was taken to the Supreme Court. The ruling of Plessey v. Ferguson was overturned and the newruling was that “separate but equal isn’t equal.” After this event most school became integrated.
The biggest and probably most famous boycott during the civil rights movement was the Montgomery BusBoycott, after which buses were finally integrated and black people were allowed to drive buses. Rosa Parks was tired after a long day of work and when she got on to the bus she sat in the front. Therule was that African Americans could sit in the front but when a white person came on to the bus the Black had to move to the back of the bus. A white man boarded the bus and expected her to move butshe refused to. This action sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott. This was a boycott in which all blacks and even some whites refused to use the bus system. The boycott lasted a little over a year....