2.  Describe efforts to end segregation in the 40’s and 50’s  Explain the importance of Brown v. BOE  Describe the controversy over school segregation in Little Rock, Arkansas  Describe the Montgomery Bus Boycott and its impact

3.  Jim Crow Laws= de jure segregation  Segregation by law  De facto segregation=by unwritten custom or tradition  Jackie Robinson Trailer Jackie Robinson Trailer Identify an example of de jure and de facto segregation from the trailer

4.  Thurgood Marshall: NAACP lawyer  Brown v. BOE  Challenged Plessy v. Ferguson  Supreme Court agreed with Brown (Earl Warren)  Reaction  Brown II: called for desegregation “with all deliberate speed”  Most southerners hated this!  KKK revival

5.  1957 Little Rock, Arkansas  9 African Americans volunteered to enroll in Central High  Gov. Orval Faubus called in the National Guard to block the school  Federal Troops called in to protect students  Stayed entire year!  Civil Rights Act 1957: established U.S. Civil Rights Commission

7.  Rosa Parks Dec. 1955  Wouldn’t give up seat on the bus for a white person  Sparked protest of bus system in Montgomery, AL  MLK  Called for protest to be nonviolent  Lasted more than a year  Supreme Court ruled bus segregation was unconstitutional

8.  MLK established Southern Christian Leadership Conference after boycott  Advocated nonviolent resistance