When Claudette Coulman and Rosa Parks wouldn 't give up their seats to white men it became the start of a revolution, the Civil Rights Movement. Claudette was too young to be the face of the boycott, she was also pregnant with a married mans child. She was in no place to be the face of the boycott and would not have been able to take the criticism from the press on her. Rosa Parks on the other hand was older and had to look to be the face of the boycott. The old seamstress who was tired after a long day working, refusing to give up her seat to a white man, helped the WCP start their moment. The movement lasted for 381 days and at the conclusion of the boycott movement, it brought about both a feeling of freedom in black Montgomery and a sense
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The legal assault on the laws had much to do with the schooling of the children, this was the one area that everyday people can relate to. In Missouri ex. real. Gains vs. Canada we see that the African American students wanted black counter parts to white institutions. In Sweatt vs. Painter there was the fight that the counter part schools much have equal programs and faculty. And finally with Brown vs. The Board of Education the African Americans wanted an end to the segregation in the schools. One of the ideas brought up in the court case was the “Doll Test.” When African American children were handed dolls of different races they reacted negatively to the black dolls. Showing how segregation effects the metal health of the children. Segregation was bing ruled as unconstitutional. In the end the legal laws slowly stared to fade away and segregation based on race and gender were coming to an end in the legal world. With the laws making it illegal to segregate the social laws of the South were not ready for that change. White men and women, who did not know any other way to treat the black population, did not adjust to this very well. The white population of America did not know how to handle the situation and just continued on treating the black men and women the same, there was very little
The legal assault on the laws had much to do with the schooling of the children, this was the one area that everyday people can relate to. In Missouri ex. real. Gains vs. Canada we see that the African American students wanted black counter parts to white institutions. In Sweatt vs. Painter there was the fight that the counter part schools much have equal programs and faculty. And finally with Brown vs. The Board of Education the African Americans wanted an end to the segregation in the schools. One of the ideas brought up in the court case was the “Doll Test.” When African American children were handed dolls of different races they reacted negatively to the black dolls. Showing how segregation effects the metal health of the children. Segregation was bing ruled as unconstitutional. In the end the legal laws slowly stared to fade away and segregation based on race and gender were coming to an end in the legal world. With the laws making it illegal to segregate the social laws of the South were not ready for that change. White men and women, who did not know any other way to treat the black population, did not adjust to this very well. The white population of America did not know how to handle the situation and just continued on treating the black men and women the same, there was very little