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Nicole Lattarulo and Abby Barnicle
Question
How did the Little Rock Nine reflect the Civil Rights Era?
Overview
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Southern resistance
• Nine black students attempt to enter Central
High School in Little Rock, Arkansas
• Orval Faubus and angry mob
• President Eisenhower orders Federal Troops
to escort the nine students into the school
Our Argument
1. Challenges to desegregate America
2. Increased Governmental Role
3. Persistence and determination
Argument #1Challenges of Desegregation
• Montgomery Bus Boycott– Blacks abandon buses in protest to
segregation of transportation.
• Greensboro Sit-in– Over 66 black students held a sit-in at
Woolworth’s lunch counter to protest the segregation of restaurants.
Nonviolent Resistance!
Nonviolent Resistance!
Greensboro Sit-In Bus Boycott
Argument #2Government Intervention
• Supreme Court Influence
• Congressional Influence
• Presidential Influence
Continue to Argument #3
Supreme Court Influence
• Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
• Muir v. Louisville (1954)
• Browder v. Gayle (1956)
• Twenty-Fourth Amendment (1964)
Back to Arugment #2
Congressional Influence
• Civil Rights Act of 1964
– Makes segregation illegal
• Voting Rights Act of 1965
– Guarantees the right to vote
Back to Arugment #2
Presidential Influence
• Dwight D. Eisenhower
• John F. Kennedy
• Lyndon B. Johnson
Back to Arugment #2
Argument #3Persistence and Determination
• Rosa Parks– Refused to give up her seat on the bus– She was “too tired of discrimination” (Roberts).
• Martin Luther King Jr.– March on Washington– Led bus boycott (1955) – Southern Christian Leadership Conference
(SCLC) – Nobel Peace Prize (1964)– Selma March
“I have a dream that
my four children will
one day live in a
nation where they
will not be judged by
the color of their
skin but by the
content of their
character. I have a
dream today.”– Martin Luther King Jr. August 28, 1963
“Eyes on the Prize
Little Rock Nine”
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