What Was The Role Of Education In The 1960's

Branded and tortured with the foul reality of mere hatred and racism, the civil rights movement was a horde movement to secure equal access to opportunities for the essential authorization of rights for African Americans and other minority groups. Despite, the fact that the journey of this evolution initiated in the 1900’s, its progression did not began to sky rocketed until the 1950’s and 1960’s. United with whites, African Americans, organized and carried out nonviolent demonstrations.
In 1954 the U.S. Supreme Court prohibited racial segregation in public schools. The majority of whites did not take well to the idea of that law being passed. A racial uproar was ignited that went on for several years. Finally when public schools came into play, it inspired many blacks to take advantage of whatever type of free education was offered. The segregation of the black and white schools created huge difference in the quality of education offered to the black students compared to the white students. The black students did not stand a chance when it came to equal education. …show more content…
Not only did blacks have to sit at the back of the bus but, if by chance, the front seats that were reserved for the whites were full the blacks would have to surrender their seats to the whites. In December of 1955 a women by the name of Rosa Parks was returning home from her local job. Like any other day, she sat in the first row of the colored section. When the driver demanded Parks and three others to give up their seats unlike the others passengers, Parks refused to give up her seat. She was arrested and fined. In the book, “Black Protest”, states: “The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a political and social protest campaign that started in 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, USA, intended to oppose the city's policy of racial