Eyes On The Prize Fighting Back Analysis

As stated in The Challenge of Democracy, “Civil rights are powers or privileges that are guaranteed to the individual and protected against arbitrary removal at the hands of the government or other individuals.” (pg. 399). In the video, Eyes on the Prize Fighting Back, it talks about segregation in schools and how it began to ratify throughout schools slowly; however, there were certain cases that were presented in this video that went against the law and violated many of the black people’s rights because they were a different color compared to the whites. One of the most important cases, Brown v. Board of Education, ran by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to desegregate public schools. The Brown v. Board of Education had reached the Supreme Court by 1951. Once it was there many stated that it violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment,
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The struggle for civil rights in this clip still made it difficult for blacks to attend school. Littlerock, Arkansas Central High school in 1957 allowed for 9 individual black kids into the school for exceptional and outstanding grades. However, things only got worse, for example, Elizabeth Eckford was an individual going to an all-white school with eight other black students. Those eight students showed up to school with their parents and others to protect them, and Elizabeth Eckford showed up all alone while walking into a horrible situation. Those eight students had already left because riots, and racial comments from the federal government. Elizabeth had no idea what exactly was going on, one can only imagine what she had gone through as she sat there on that bench listening to everyone’s racial comments. From the book, it