The Improvement of the Civil Rights in 1945 and 1963

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The Improvement of the Civil Rights in 1945 and 1963 The US citizens improved the civil rights in the years 1945 – 1963. Firstly the Brown Vs Board of education of Topeka case. This case was about a black girl called Linda Brown, who travelled several kilometres and crossed a dangerous railway track to get to a black school, rather then attending a white-only school nearby. The NAACP (National Association (of the) Advancement (of) Coloured People) whose goals were to end racial discrimination and segregation. They took the case to the Supreme Court against the board of education in Topeka. This case was to improve education in the south of America by making segregated school illegal. They won and black children were able to get a better education. A few years after the segregated schools were made illegal, nine black Americans decided to attend a high school called Little Rock, there was trouble Little rock’s white citizens and a group called the Mothers’ league of Little Rock Central High school started to protested against the nine pupils joining the high school. The Governor of Arkansas, Orval E. Faubus refused to let the nine pupils from entering the school and called the National Guard to keep them out. The President ordered troops and National Guard members into the city to help the nine African Americans attend the public school. This was the first time in awhile that the troops were called to help black Americans. The nine students were help into the school and some even graduated some year after. Martin Luther King was another that changed the civil rights. King created groups such as SCLC (southern Christian Leadership Conference), who ran conferences and trained civil right activists in techniques of non-violent protest. MIA (Montgomery Improvement Association) boycotted buses, the impact was the buses became empty and the bus companies lost a lot of their income. Martin Luther King believed the way to protest was non-violence however not all civil right activists agreed with his methods.

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