Title: Was the Civil Rights Movement Successful? - GCSE History - Marked by Teachers.com
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Was the Civil Rights Movement Successful?
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Content: Blacks were discriminated for the colour of their skin. Because of this White people were prejudice against Blacks, and segregation was formed. Nearly everything was segregated, benches, drinking fountains, but a major segregation law was the segregation of schools. Peaceful protests took place in school lunch halls, with sit-ins, where black students would sit at 'white only' lunch counters. Oliver Brown sued his state for not letting his black daughter into a white school. 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.