How Did The Little Rock Nine Impact The Civil Rights Movement

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Imagine you’re locked in a glass room with other people who are the same colored skin as you. You have nothing to do in your tiny glass room. You can see other people on the outside playing, laughing, and enjoying themselves. You try to call out. To let them see you. See who you really are, but none of them listen. You and the other people in the small glass room start pounding at the glass hoping it will crack and eventually break. This is similar to the struggle that African Americans faced during the Civil Rights Movement. They risked everything for equality. The fight for equality caught a lot of attentions even from the people higher up in the government. When the Little Rock Nine took their steps through the insults and harassment of …show more content…
In Chicago in 1942, James Farmer and George Houser founded the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). After a year, CORE carried out protests against public places that refused to admit or serve African Americans. CORE’s protests successfully ended segregation in many public places such as restaurants and theaters in Chicago, Detroit, Denver, and Syracuse. In 1909, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) worked for African American’s rights. In the 1950s, NAACP lawyers searched for cases to challenge the laws allowing segregation in public schools. They used Linda Brown as the center of their case and changed the public school segregation laws. They also organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott. They had strengths in numbers. About 75 percent of the bus company’s riders were African American. At one of the boycott meeting, a Baptist minister spoke. The minister was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and he made an important impact on the crowd. The boycott altered many African American’s lives. Many walked to work or rode a bike. They set up carpool system where they would go in other African American’s cars and shuttle people from place to place. The boycott lasted for more than a year. Many leaders including, Dr. King, were arrested. The bus company lost thousands of dollars in fares, and downtown businesses lost customers. The law on bus segregation was said to be unconstitutional in December 1956. King also believe in a nonviolent approach. He used civil disobedience on laws that he believe to be unjust. His encouraged his followers to disobey unjust laws but without violence. In January 1957, King and 60 other ministers started a new organization called the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). SCLC leaders also encouraged nonviolent protest. They showed civil rights workers how to protect themselves from violent attacks. The organization also talked