The Heroic Events Of The Civil Rights Movement

The 13th Amendment abolished slavery in the United States stating that “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction”. This was a big step for African Americans, and African Americans. However, they still had a long way to go to achieve equality, and the same rights and opportunities for all, in addition, this would cost lives, and a lot of hard work and effort; a difficult road to walk. The Civil Rights Movement was a series of heroic events in American history extremely important; its objectives were mainly to eliminate segregation, and discrimination.
The 1957 school year was about to begin, and an angry mob was trying to stop nine black students from entering Central High in Little Rock, Arkansas. The testimony of Ernest Green, a student from Central High School, Class of 1958, was that at first they did not clearly anticipate all the violence and turmoil that occurred. The first day that they attempted to go to school, eight of them were at one part of the school and Elizabeth Eckfort was at another part, and it was the mob that followed Elizabeth. They start to feel the hostile, and violent group of people. Even at that point, he knew that if they didn’t go through with it, didn’t attend Central and backed out, it would just reinforce the view that the African-American community in Little Rock wasn’t interested in making a change in things. During the 1950s, African-Americans were trying to make their voices heard. Little Rock was a year after the Montgomery bus boycott, so Rosa Lee Parks had a major impact, and Martin Luther King Jr. was in the beginning, and knew that things could change. The first step for the Little Rock Nine came in 1954, when the U.S. The Supreme Court issued its opinion in the landmark case: Brown v. The Topeka, Kansas Board of Education. The “Separate but equal” is inherently unequal. This decision was detested in Little Rock, Arkansas. In the face of protests at Central High School, the Governor of Arkansas calls on the National Guard to preserve the peace and prevent violence. According to Green, President Eisenhower wanted to show that the federal government was supreme in that, and to send a message. Under the guard of the U.S. Army, the students are finally able to do something very simple: go to school, but school is like going to war every day. Green became the first graduate of Central High School with the class in 1958. Nevertheless, integration was not complete in Little Rock. In 1959, Governor