Title: Was the Civil Rights Movement Successful? - GCSE History - Marked by Teachers.com
Headings: Was the Civil Rights Movement Successful?
Was the Civil Rights Movement Successful?
Extracts from this document...
Introduction
Middle
Conclusion
Found what you're looking for?

Content: Brown won, and the Supreme Court decided that segregation of schools was against blacks and deprived them of a decent education. The court ordered states to allow black and white students attend the same school. This law was tested at Little Rock. In 1957 a school at Little Rock was to be the first school to start school desegregation. ... read more. Middle
They were labeled either 'Whites only' or 'for coloured people'. Busses were segregated until the bus boycott in 1955. Rosa Parks a black woman sat in the 'white only' seats on the bus, instead of the black section at the back of the bus. When a man came on and told her to move, she refused and was arrested. This led to the Montgomery bus boycott, which was quite successful in that, a year later it achieved a law forbidding segregation on busses.