The Civil Rights movement, which formed from 1954-1968, whose purpose was only to gain freedom for all African Americans, faced many downsides to their right to be free and treated right, just like the whites. Many protests, movements, and even marches showed the desperate need of equalness through segregation in America. There was many factors to segregation. One being school segregation, only being about whether or not equalness in schools had to be apart of it or not. Which it was, it was about all the cases that was brought to court for being “separate but equal” but more separate than equal. School segregation was more than “separate but equal”. It had to do with emotion and how African Americans …show more content…
Brown was concerned about his daughter Linda, a third grader, had to walk six blocks to her school bus stop to go to monroe elementary which was way over a mile away when a white school was seven blocks away from her house. The leaders of the NAACP told the parents to enroll into the closest neighborhood school that next fall of 1951. They were all denied and were directed back to the segregated schools. The case was named after Brown as a legal strategy to have a man at the head of the roster, seeing as the rest of the plaintiffs were all women. In the following years another case known as Brown II was brought up. The Court ordered segregation to be phased out over time, "with all deliberate …show more content…
The organization used strategies against the Civil Rights Movement by describing the policies of segregation. It harassed and collected important data legally on activist, threatening and losing their jobs. Kennard was later arrested twice for false accusations and was sentenced to seven years in prison. After three years of prison he was paroled out and later died of colon cancer. In the year of 1962, a guy named James Meredith won a lawsuit for his right to go to the same college that was once segregated. The Mississippi governor told Meredith that he would not enroll and enter the school “as long as he was governor. The Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had the governor and the Lieutenant Governor arrested and fined more than $10,000 for each day they would not let him enroll. Meredith was finally accepted and entered the campus with an escort of U.S marshals. The students started to riot and began to throw rocks and shoot at the U.S Marshals that escorted Meredith. Two people were killed, 28 marshalls had gunshot wounds, and 160 other people were injured. President Kennedy then sent the US Navy troops to calm down the riot and Meredith began classes the next