Lasting Implacations
Verdict was Communicated
Newspaper, University Library, No date
News, ABC, 1984
Rosa Parks, Bibliography, 2018
“I feel that after thirty years, looking back on Brown v. The Board of Education, it has made an impact in all facets of life for minorities throughout the land. I really think of it in terms of what it has done for our young people, in taking away that feeling of second class citizenship. I think it has made the dreams, hopes and aspirations of our young people greater, today.” - Linda Brown
President Johnson signing Act, Biography, 1965
Timeline
1954 - Brown v. Board of Education case: strikes down segregation as unconstitutional.
1955 - In Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks (1913 – 2005) is arrested for breaking a city ordinance by refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man.
1957 - Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929 – 1968) and others set up the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, a leading engine of the Civil Rights Movement.
1964 - The Civil Rights Act is signed, prohibiting discrimination of all kinds.
1965 - The Voting Rights Act is passed, outlawing the practices used in the South to disenfranchise African American voters.
1967 - Edward W. Brooke (1919 - ) becomes the first African American U.S. Senator since Reconstruction. He serves two terms as a Senator from Massachusetts.
1968 - Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
2008 - Barack Obama (1961 - ) becomes the first African American to win the U.S. presidential race.
Timeline, NPS , 1619 - 2008
Linda Brown and many other black children communicated what they believed in and things changed! Winning the court case was a big breakthrough in integrating public schools, but racism still exists. Winning the case changed laws but did not change minds. Change takes time. This was just the beginning. According to Center Budget and Policy Priorities 65 years after Brown v. Board lawsuits were still being filed against public schools because of racism: "Fourteen states — Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Tennessee face lawsuits on school funding adequacy or equity. Nationally, school districts serving the most Black, Latino, and Native American students receive significantly less state and local funding than districts serving the fewest." We believe that presenting this topic is important to highlight that segregation was legal only 70 years ago. We still have to change hearts and minds today. We need to come together to stand up for equality for all!