Legal advances in civil rights

Question 1

Little Rock?

Answer 1

-9 black children were selected to attend the previously all-white Central High.
-The National Guard were sent to prevent the 9 children from entering the school ‘for their own safety’.
-Over 250 reporters and photographers were there
-MLK arranged a meeting with President Eisenhower urging him to act. Ike sent in Federal Troops to guard the children going to and from school, in corridors, in classrooms, the dining hall and at home

Question 2

1946 Morgan vs Virginia

Answer 2

-Irene Morgan boarded a bus to go to Baltimore Maryland. She was ordered to sit in the back of the bus, due to Virginian law.
-She objected and said as the bus was interstate, the law didn’t apply.
-She was arrested and fined 10 dollars

Question 3

1946 Morgan vs Virginia Outcome

Answer 3

-Defeated another segregation law
-Blacks and whites can be seated together
-Did not have an immediate effect

Question 4

1954 Brown vs the Board of Education of Topeka

Answer 4

-The decision overturned the Plessy vs Ferguson decision of 1896 which allowed state-sponsored segregation.
-Warren’s court voted unanimous and stated that ‘separate educational facilities are inherently unequal’

Question 5

1954 Brown vs the Board of Education of Topeka Outcome

Answer 5

-Legal case didn’t change things immediately
-Schools remained segregated in the south