1. AFRICAN AMERICAN LIFE IN THE 1950’S

2. SPORTS

3. EARL LLOYD

13. FYI

14. 1946

16. 1947

20. SCHOOL DESEGREGATION

21. 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.

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 BLACK SCHOOLS POORLY KEPT FACILITIES OVERCROWDED OUT OF DATE TEXTBOOKS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

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

40. THE MURDER OF EMMETT TILL

65. RIP

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

68. ROY BRYANT
DIED OF CANCER
IN 1994
NEVER EXPRESSED REMORSE

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

70. CAROLYN BRYANT-DONHAM
REMARRIED
STILL ALIVE
LIVES IN SECLUSION

72. THE MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT

73. VERNON JOHNS

88. THE LITTLE ROCK NINE

92. DAISY BATES

98. 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.

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

107. ERNEST GREEN

108. 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.

113. Watch youtube clip from Oprah show

114. INTEGRATION OF CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG SCHOOLS

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

116. SUPERINTENDENT ELMER GARINGER

117. BILLY GRAHAM

118. DOROTHY COUNTS

124. Delois Huntley

126. Gus & Girvaud Roberts