AFRICAN AMERICAN LIFE IN THE 1950’S

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AFRICAN AMERICAN LIFE IN THE 1950’S

SPORTS

EARL LLOYD

FYI

1946

1947

SCHOOL DESEGREGATION

Brown vs Board of Education Before 1954, public schools in the south were segregated. Black students had separate schools that were not equal to the schools that white students attended.

BLACK SCHOOLS POORLY KEPT FACILITIES OVERCROWDED OUT OF DATE TEXTBOOKS INADEQUATE TEACHERS

WHITE SCHOOLS CLEAN AND UP TO DATE FACILITIES GOOD TEACHER TO STUDENT RATIO LATEST TEXTBOOKS AND SUPPLIES CERTIFIED /EDUCATED TEACHERS

THE MURDER OF EMMETT TILL

RIP

JW MILAM DIED OF CANCER IN 1980 RECEIVED MONEY FOR HIS INTERVIEW TO MAGAZINE

ROY BRYANT DIED OF CANCER IN 1994 NEVER EXPRESSED REMORSE

MAMIE TILL-MOBLEY REMARRIED DIED IN 2003 SAYS SHE NEVER CARRIED HATRED IN HER HEART FOR WHAT HAPPENED

CAROLYN BRYANT-DONHAM REMARRIED STILL ALIVE LIVES IN SECLUSION

THE MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT

VERNON JOHNS

THE LITTLE ROCK NINE

DAISY BATES

The Little Rock Nine These pictures appeared on the front page of papers all throughout the nation. President Dwight Eisenhower called the governor to Washington DC and ordered him to remove the National Guard.

The Little Rock Nine The next year, Ernest Green became the first of the Little Rock Nine to graduate.

ERNEST GREEN

The Little Rock Nine Since graduating, many honors have been given to the Little Rock Nine and they have reunited with the whites who tormented them.

Watch youtube clip from Oprah show

INTEGRATION OF CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG SCHOOLS

Integration in CMS On the same day of the Little Rock incident, Charlotte had a very similar experience in integrating its schools.

SUPERINTENDENT ELMER GARINGER

BILLY GRAHAM

DOROTHY COUNTS

Delois Huntley

Gus & Girvaud Roberts