decision came in 1954 mandated the desegregation of schools in the south breaks up the “separate...

Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka

• Decision came in 1954• Mandated the desegregation

of schools in the South• Breaks up the “separate but

equal” Plessy vs. Ferguson decision of 1896 where the U.S. Government reinforced segregation

• Just desegregated schools, however opened the doors for more desegregation legislation

• Schools had to desegregate in “all deliberate speed”

Little Rock Nine Integration of Central High School

Little Rock, Arkansas 1957

Does History Really Repeat Itself?

The Wrong Place at the Wrong Time and of the Wrong Color!

Sound Familiar?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW1ZDIXiuS4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDWNB01xGj4

Emmett Till

Mississippi 1955

September 15 1963Birmingham Bombing

Birmingham Bombing

September 15, 1963http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/birmingham-church-bombing/videos

1961 Freedom Riders

1964

Mississipp

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May 19, 1925 - February 21, 1965

A Dream Deferredby Langston Hughes

What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?

Or fester like a sore-- And then run?

Does it stink like rotten meat?

Or crust and sugar over-- like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?

Watts Riot Los Angeles South Central 1965

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=my3doRW-HWA

January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968

Violence

Non-Violence?

or