Little Rock Nine by:Rachel Martin
September of 1957, this country was changed forever by this crisis of segregation.
picture of the central high school and the little rock nine being protected by an army of men for their safety.
As you can imagine Governor Faubus is not happy about this situation but him rejecting the idea of segregation at the school and giving a lack of protection to the nine african american students the president has taken this into his own hands and has brung in a army full of men to make sure the segregation is proceeded and the nine stay safe. Testing a landmark, supreme court ruling has declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional. The court has mandated that all public schools in the country be integrated …show more content…
Faubus originally trained to be a teacher and then became interested in politics and joined the Democratic Party. However, despite his upbringing by a liberal family, Faubus became increasingly right-wing in his views. Faubus joined the army during World War II and rose to rank of major in army intelligence. After the war he returned home and continued in politics and ran for governor in 1954 as a liberal promising to increase spending on schools and roads. In the first few months in office, Faubus has desegregated state buses and public transportation and had began to investigate the possibility of introducing multi-racial schools. This has resulted in him being attacked by conservations. Fearing he would lose office faubus then decided to fight the Brown V. board of education decision by the supreme court that said separate schools were not equal and were therefore unconstitutional.( In my own words I believe Governor faubus has tried to make people think he was against segregation because he knew it would cause violence when really he is just against all of it because he is simply racist. Which I am sure many of you have already know this… what is your intake on Governor …show more content…
This 42 year old woman who works as a seamstress, boarded this Montgomery City Bus to go home from work. So to speak she sat in the middle of the bus, just behind the 10 seats reserved for whites.Soon enough all the seats were filled. When a white man entered the bus, the bus driver (who was following the standard practice of segregation) insisted that all four blacks seating just behind the white section give up their seats so that the white man could sit there.
A close up picture of Rosa Parks
Mr.Parks, who Is an active member of the local NAACP,quietly refused to give up her seat. Her action was spontaneous and not-premeditated although her current civil rights involvement and strong sense of justice were obvious influences. “When I made that decision I knew I had the strength of my ancestors with me” she later said. She has been arrested and convicted of violating the laws of segregation, known as “jim crow laws.”Mr.Parks appealed her conviction and thus formally challenged the legality of segregation.At the same time, local civil rights activists initiated a boycott of the Montgomery bus system. In cities across south, segregated bus companies are daily reminders of the inequities of American society. Since African Americans made up about 75 percent of the riders in montgomery, the boycott has posed a serious economic threat to the company and a social threat
September of 1957, this country was changed forever by this crisis of segregation.
picture of the central high school and the little rock nine being protected by an army of men for their safety.
As you can imagine Governor Faubus is not happy about this situation but him rejecting the idea of segregation at the school and giving a lack of protection to the nine african american students the president has taken this into his own hands and has brung in a army full of men to make sure the segregation is proceeded and the nine stay safe. Testing a landmark, supreme court ruling has declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional. The court has mandated that all public schools in the country be integrated …show more content…
Faubus originally trained to be a teacher and then became interested in politics and joined the Democratic Party. However, despite his upbringing by a liberal family, Faubus became increasingly right-wing in his views. Faubus joined the army during World War II and rose to rank of major in army intelligence. After the war he returned home and continued in politics and ran for governor in 1954 as a liberal promising to increase spending on schools and roads. In the first few months in office, Faubus has desegregated state buses and public transportation and had began to investigate the possibility of introducing multi-racial schools. This has resulted in him being attacked by conservations. Fearing he would lose office faubus then decided to fight the Brown V. board of education decision by the supreme court that said separate schools were not equal and were therefore unconstitutional.( In my own words I believe Governor faubus has tried to make people think he was against segregation because he knew it would cause violence when really he is just against all of it because he is simply racist. Which I am sure many of you have already know this… what is your intake on Governor …show more content…
This 42 year old woman who works as a seamstress, boarded this Montgomery City Bus to go home from work. So to speak she sat in the middle of the bus, just behind the 10 seats reserved for whites.Soon enough all the seats were filled. When a white man entered the bus, the bus driver (who was following the standard practice of segregation) insisted that all four blacks seating just behind the white section give up their seats so that the white man could sit there.
A close up picture of Rosa Parks
Mr.Parks, who Is an active member of the local NAACP,quietly refused to give up her seat. Her action was spontaneous and not-premeditated although her current civil rights involvement and strong sense of justice were obvious influences. “When I made that decision I knew I had the strength of my ancestors with me” she later said. She has been arrested and convicted of violating the laws of segregation, known as “jim crow laws.”Mr.Parks appealed her conviction and thus formally challenged the legality of segregation.At the same time, local civil rights activists initiated a boycott of the Montgomery bus system. In cities across south, segregated bus companies are daily reminders of the inequities of American society. Since African Americans made up about 75 percent of the riders in montgomery, the boycott has posed a serious economic threat to the company and a social threat