Civil+Rights+and+Desegregation

=1950's: Civil Rights and Desegregation= //back to 1950's main page//

"It Was a Great Moment": A powerful video about the Brown v. Board of Education ruling

1952 - Raising Awareness: Ralph Ellison writes //Invisible Man//
//PBS Ellison Timeline// http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/ellison_r_timeline_flash.html

1954 - Brown v. Board of Education: "Separate but Equal" is ruled unconstitutional. Educational policy leads to social change
//Smithsonian site: "Separate is Not Equal"// http://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/index.html

//Landmark Cases of the US Supreme Court: Brown v. Board of Education// http://www.streetlaw.org/en/Case.6.aspx

1955 - Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
[|King Institute Encyclopedia: Timeline, Primary Source Documents and More]

//PBS Site: Montgomery Bus Boycott// http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eyesontheprize/story/02_bus.html

1955 - Martin Luther King, Jr. "Nonviolence and Racial Justice"
[| MLK on the cover of Time Magazine - February 18, 1957]

//Martin Luther King Timeline// http://www.lib.lsu.edu/hum/mlk/srs216.html

//The King Institute// http://www.kinginstitute.info/

1957 - 1958 Integration of Little Rock Central High School
//Meet the Little Rock Nine// http://www.lrsd.org/centralhigh50th/1957.htm

//Little Rock Timeline// http://www.nps.gov/chsc/historyculture/timeline.htm

//Civil Rights Digital Library// http://crdl.usg.edu/events/little_rock_integration/

Timeline 1941-1973 from Journalists' Perspectives []