PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1960S
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The first black students to be integrated into a public school
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The group responsible for the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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A group of trusted advisors to Malcolm X and the his Nation of Islam following
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The Supreme Court Justices who voted unanimously on the Brown v. Board of Education decision
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Detailed explanation-1: -Called the “Little Rock Nine", they were Ernest Green (b. 1941), Elizabeth Eckford (b. 1941), Jefferson Thomas (1942–2010), Terrence Roberts (b. 1941), Carlotta Walls LaNier (b.
Detailed explanation-2: -Some schools in the United States were integrated before the mid-20th century, the first ever being Lowell High School in Massachusetts, which has accepted students of all races since its founding. The earliest known African American student, Caroline Van Vronker, attended the school in 1843.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Board of Education, of all that was in store for our nation in the years to come. The “Little Rock Nine, ” as the nine teens came to be known, were to be the first African American students to enter Little Rock’s Central High School.
Detailed explanation-4: -Significance: In 1957, nine ordinary teenagers walked out of their homes and stepped up to the front lines in the battle for civil rights for all Americans. The media coined the name “Little Rock Nine” to identify the first African American students to desegregate Little Rock Central High School.