The Civil Rights Movement: Board Vs. Board Of Education

“The Civil Rights Movement, it wasn't just a couple of, you know, superstars like Martin Luther King. It was thousands and thousands - millions, I should say - of people taking risks, becoming leaders in their community.” ~Barbara Ehrenreich
The civil rights movement was a movement that affected everyone from all backgrounds of life. The movement began in the early to mid-1950s and ended around the late 1960s.The civil rights movement was widely recognized by some of the greatest pioneers of all time. Some pioneers were Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Ruby Bridges, Maya Angelou and so much more. Today, we honored them for their work in effort in our industrial, education, transportation, urbanization industries.
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Board vs. Board of Education was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. It was decided that separate educational facilities were inherently unequal. This paved the way for integration and was a major victory of the civil rights movement and was used as model for future litigation cases.
Racial segregation in the U.S. included the segregation of access to facilities, services, and opportunities for housing, medical care, education, employment, eating in restaurants, drinking from water fountains, using public toilets and transportation.
There were many that stood up for education equality. Ruby Bridges was a civil rights activist who at the age of six became the first African American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana, New Orleans. She paved a path for future generations of black students and was an inspiration to people of all
It took a pioneer named Rosa Parks to get on a bus headed home from work to say “No, I am not moving I am tired” to begin this evolutionary battle. The birth of the Civil Rights Movement was the bus boycott which lasted 381 days. This started because on December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man. After the arrest of Rosa, the Women's Political Council decided to call for a boycott of the city buses. This was greeted with much enthusiasm by local black leaders and influential black clergy. The boycott began on December 5, 1955. The boycott was led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., during this time 90 percent of the African Americans in Montgomery, Alabama refused to ride the buses. In early 1955, there was fifteen-year-old high school student and NAACP Youth Council member named Claudette Colvin who was arrested for refusing to give up her seat. During her arrest for resisting, she was kicked and her school books were knocked out of her