No dice, Jack.Įventually, Kennedy's fears were calmed when the march's organizers convinced him that it would be non-violent.
JKennedy Meets With Civil Rights Leadersįearing a violent backlash to the March on Washington, the president sought to call off the whole thing. led a boycott of the bus system, protesting white demands that blacks move to the back…so they wouldn't obstruct the view of traffic? Sometimes segregation was played out in the pettiest of ways. This moment proved that the Civil Rights movement was not just for protesters and activist organizers anybody could participate, anytime. December 1955 Rosa Parks Bus ProtestĪn African American woman named Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the front of a bus to a white woman. School boards can be some of the most contentious political spheres in America, since it's the kids we're talking about.
The ruling made the modern Civil Rights Movement blast off. It reversed the precedent of "separate but equal," and declared that segregated schools are inherently unequal, and thus discriminatory. This landmark Supreme Court case ruled that segregation in public schools was illegal.
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