PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1950S
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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George Wallace
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Orval Faubus
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Strom Thurmond
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Lester Maddox
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Detailed explanation-1: -On September 2, 1957 the night prior to what was to be the teens’ first day in Central High classrooms, Arkansas governor Orval Faubus ordered the state’s National Guard to block their entrance. Faubus said it was for the safety of the nine students.
Detailed explanation-2: -Eisenhower and Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus, has become known in modern American history as the “Little Rock Crisis.” The crisis gained world-wide attention.
Detailed explanation-3: -On September 4, 1957, the first day of classes at Central High, Governor Orval Faubus called in the Arkansas National Guard to block the Black students’ entry into the high school.
Detailed explanation-4: -Faubus’s name became internationally known during the Little Rock Crisis of 1957, when he used the Arkansas National Guard to stop African Americans from attending Little Rock Central High School as part of federally ordered racial desegregation.
Detailed explanation-5: -Ernest Green is the first African American to graduate from Little Rock Central High School (May 1958).