Civil Rights Museum

1. Civil Rights Museum Michelle Manganelli and Erica Cox 6/7 period

2. Brown Vs. Board of Education • What interest me is that segregation was not only in the South, but all over the country. • What makes me angry is that we are all the same people just in different ways. • What I would like to learn more about is what was the reason why the case ended up like that.

3. Rally in Little Rock An anti-integration rally in Little Rock, Arkansas, on 20 August 1959. The protesters carry American flags alongside placards declaring racial mixing to be "communism" and "the march of the antichrist"—a fascinating and disturbing mix of patriotism, prejudice, and fear.

4. Professor, Kenneth Bancroft Clark The psychological and social scientific evidence he presented helped convince the court that segregation damaged the social and mental development of black children.

5. George E. C. Hayes, Thurgood Marshall, and James Nabrit Jr George E. C. Hayes, Thurgood Marshall, and James Nabrit Jr.—celebrating after the Brown verdict. In 1967 Thurgood Marshall went on to become the first African American appointed to the Supreme Court, where he served for twenty four years.

6. Blacks and Whites 1956 shows black students attending high school in Clinton, Tennessee, while their white classmates look on. Though the scene here appears peaceful, many black students faced intimidation or violence when attending integrated schools for the first time.

7. Montgomery Bus Boycott • What interest me is that even after all the cases in court, it ended up Blacks having their rights and ride buses as equals. • What makes me angry is the government can just sit back and watch this all happing to their country. • I would like to learn more about is why were the Blacks considered to second class citizens .

8. Black Residents Walking, Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955 Black Residents Walking, Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955

9. Montgomery city bus Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat.

10. Rosa Parks in Jail Rosa Parks, whose refusal to move to the back of a bus touched off the Montgomery bus boycott and the beginning of the civil rights movement, is fingerprinted by officer D.H. Lackey in Montgomery, Ala., Feb. 22, 1956. She was among some 100 people charged with violating segregation laws.

11. Rosa Parks mug shot After she didn’t get out of her seat on the bus , she had to go to the county jail for some mug shots,

12. Central High • What interests me is that even tho it was in the Deep South, still no Blacks went to school there. • What makes me angry is that even tho the that decision in Brown vs. Board of Education to out the law of segregated schools there still isn’t any classrooms in the Deep South. • I would like to learn more about the lifestyle of a strongly segregated country.

13. Central High Supreme Court announced its decision in Brown v. Broad of Education to outlaw segregated schools, there still weren't any classrooms in the Deep South where blacks and whites sat together .

14. Education Without Mixing A parade of cars filled with young whites in the 1950s leads a demonstration protesting the coming of integration in the schools.

15. The Little Rock Nine Here are the nine brave students chosen to integrate Little Rock High School in 1957. From left, standing, are Ernest Green, Melba Pattillo, Jefferson Thomas, Carlotta Walls, and Terrance Roberts (next to Daisy Bates, president of the Arkansas Chapter of the NAACP). From left, seated, are Thelma Mothershed, Minnie Jean Brown, Elizabeth Eckford, and Gloria Ray.

16. Governor Orval Faubus Governor Orval Faubus of Arkansas appeals to Little Rock voters to back his stance against integration in the schools.

17. Charles Moore • What interest me is that Charles Moore didn’t plan to photograph the civil rights movement. • What makes me angry is that all the work Charles Moore did he tired to get the word out of segregation when people knew it, but didn’t do anything. • I would like to learn more about the way Charles put his life at risk by being a witness at some of the most major events that he covered.

18. Charles Moore After a long night of violence and death during riots at the University of Mississippi, photographer Charles Moore is surrounded by empty tear gas canisters

19. Martin Luther King, Jr. Alabama, 1960.Martin Luther King, Jr. addresses demonstrators on the steps of the state capitol in Montgomery. In one speech, he said "...let us move on in these POWERFUL days of challenge to make America what it ought to be."

20. Birmingham Alabama, 1963.In Birmingham, anti-segregation demonstrators lie on the sidewalk to protect themselves from firemen with high PRESSURE water hoses. One disgusted fireman said later, "We're supposed to fight fires, not people."

21. James Meredith Mississippi, 1962.Under heavy GUARD, James Meredith is escorted to registration at Ole Miss by Chief U.S. Marshal James McShane (left) and John Doar of the U. S. Justice Department.

22. What We Learned Michelle Manganelli Erica Cox • Four facts that your learned that you didn’t know before. • Four facts that you learned that you didn’t know before.