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The Korean Conflict. McCarthyism. The Montgomery Bus Boycott. The Rosenberg Spy Trial. The 1950’s Top News Stories. Segregation and Little Rock, Arkansas. Brown v Board of Education. Breaking News Brown vs. Board of Education.
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The Korean Conflict McCarthyism The Montgomery Bus Boycott The Rosenberg Spy Trial The1950’s Top News Stories Segregation and Little Rock, Arkansas Brown v Board of Education
Breaking NewsBrown vs. Board of Education As editor of this news article, I believe that the Brow vs. Board of Education has to be the most powerful challenge that American has overcome. Education can open up many doors for people and with the government segregating school and giving one race more then the other is not fair. Everyone deserves the same treatment and opportunities especially young children who are only trying to learn.
The Korean ConflictJune 25, 1950 Koreans welcomed the defeat of Japan in World War II with great joy and relief. However, their joy was short-lived. Liberation did not bring the independence for which the Koreans had fought so hard, but the inception of ideological conflict in a divided country. The efforts of the Koreans to establish and independent government were frustrated by the United States in the South and the occupation of the North by the Soviet Union.
McCarthyismSenator Joseph McCarthy The United States Army was outraged by McCarthy's accusations. McCarthy even accused President Eisenhower of treason. After almost a month of proceedings, the senate found that fellow Senator McCarthy acted in a manner they called contemptuous and reprehensible. On December 2, the senate voted 67 to 22 to censure McCarthy for inappropriate conduct of a senator.
The Rosenberg Spy TrialJulius & Ethel The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins in New York Southern District federal court. Judge Irving R. Kaufman presides over the espionage prosecution of the couple accused of selling nuclear secrets to the Russians (treason could not be charged because the United States was not at war with the Soviet Union). The Rosenberg's, and co-defendant, Morton Sobell, were defended by the father and son team of Emanuel and Alexander Bloch. The prosecution includes the infamous Roy Cohn, best known for his association with Senator Joseph McCarthy.
Brown vs. Board of Education This is how the Brown vs. Board of Education lawsuit was started in 1951. Linda’s father, Oliver Brown, and thirteen other parents tried to enroll their children in the local "white schools" in the summer of 1950, but were turned down because they were African Americans. They were told they must attend one of the four schools in the city for African American children. These parents filed suit against the Topeka Board of Education for their children. Oliver Brown was the first parent listed in the lawsuit, so the case was named after him. At the time of the lawsuit, Blacks everywhere were not treated fairly. For every $150.00 spent on white children at the "white schools" only $50.00 was spent on African American children at the "black schools." The parents of the African American children thought that their school was not treated as fairly because they were colored. They did not have the most current textbooks, not enough school supplies, and overcrowded classrooms.
Segregation & Little Rock, Arkansas“Little Rock Nine” On 3rd September 1957, the governor of Arkansas, Orual Faubus, used the National Guard to stop black children from attending the local high school in Little Rock. Woodrow Mann, the reforming mayor of the city, disagreed with this decision and on 4th September telegraphed President Dwight Eisenhower and asked him to send federal troops to Little Rock.
The Montgomery Bus Boycott The Montgomery Bus Boycott officially started on December 1, 1955. That was the day when the blacks of Montgomery, Alabama, decided that they would boycott the city buses until they could sit anywhere they wanted, instead of being relegated to the back when a white boarded. It was not, however, the day that the movement to desegregate the buses started. Perhaps the movement started on the day in 1943 when a black seamstress named Rosa Parks paid her bus fare and then watched the bus drive off as she tried to re-enter through the rear door, as the driver had told her to do.
EDITORS PAGE Alicia Jones History Period 4 Mr. Missal 1950’s Events
