President John F. Kennedy

During President John F.Kennedy Inaugural address in 1961, he promised to end discrimination against African Americans & other races.

Ruby Bridges

In the BBC video ,Ruby Bridges on how she helped change America, Ruby Bridges tells us about her experience as the first African American to go to an all white elementary school.

Her parents Abon & Lucille Bridges responded to a request from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to volunteer in the integration of the New Orleans School system.They agreed to participate in the integration,even though her parents volunteered her to participate  father Abon was hesitant.

The Little Rock Nine

 The Little Rock Nine Were A Group Of African American Students who went to Little Rock Central High School in 1957.These Students were prevented to enter the high school premises by Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus. The students later were allow to enter Little Rock Central High School after the intervention of President Eisenhower.


Name Of the Students
 Ernest Green , Elizabeth Eckford , Jefferson Thomas, Terrence Roberts , Carlotta Walls LaNier, Minnijean Brown , Gloria Ray Karlmark, Thelma Mothershed , and Melba Pattillo Beals

These Images below are the most iconic pictures that show Hazel Massery (girl behind) shouting at Elizabeth Eckford when Little Rock Central High School was integrated.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr,

Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks

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In this Article was about the overwhelming number of reports about hundreds of schools across the country are scheduled to be shut down





http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/01/29/are-recent-school-closings-a-civil-rights-issue/

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In the article,"On violence & Nonvioence:The Civil rights movement in Mississippi",by Curtis J. Austin,the author addresses the idea of Mississippi being one of the most racist and violent state in the U.S before the civil rights movement.He makes several interesting points in his article.For Example,he talks about people who were beating and killed because they supported a black person's right to vote.Most time white people were not aressted for their crimes but if they did the minimal sentence would be 2 to 10 years.He also talks about when the white people tried to register black people to vote & they were killed.From this event people started to notice because it was getting media attention.I think what happened was not right and unjust but its good that from that event people and the media took notice of it.


http://mshistorynow.mdah.state.ms.us/articles/62/the-civil-rights-movement-in-mississippi-on-violence-and-nonviolence