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1896, Case of Plessy v.Ferguson: ruled in favor of "separate but equal" schools for blacks, citing the ruling in Roberts v.Boston; 1954, Case of Brown v.Board of Board of Education: ruled against "separate but equal", citing Sumner's arguments, and banned segregated schools nationwide.
The Robert Russa Moton Museum (popularly known as the Moton Museum or Moton) is a historic site and museum in Farmville, Prince Edward County, Virginia.It is located in the former Robert Russa Moton High School, considered "the student birthplace of America's Civil Rights Movement" for its initial student strike and ultimate role in the 1954 Brown v.
Robert Russa Moton (August 26, 1867 – May 31, 1940) was an American educator and author. [1] He served as an administrator at Hampton Institute . In 1915 he was named principal of Tuskegee Institute , after the death of founder Booker T. Washington , a position he held for 20 years until retirement in 1935.
In 1964, 10 years after Brown v. Board of Education, a coalition set up a one-day boycott of Milwaukee Public Schools to protest school segregation.
Board of Education, a ruling commemorated at a national historic site in a former all-Black school just down the street. Topeka was at the center of Brown v. Board.
The civil rights movement (1896–1954) was a long, primarily nonviolent action to bring full civil rights and equality under the law to all Americans. The era has had a lasting impact on American society – in its tactics, the increased social and legal acceptance of civil rights, and in its exposure of the prevalence and cost of racism.
June 23 – Virginia Governor Thomas B. Stanley and Board of Education decide to continue segregated schools into 1956. June 29 – The NAACP wins a U.S. Supreme Court suit which orders the University of Alabama to admit Autherine Lucy. July 11 – The Georgia Board of Education orders that any teacher supporting integration be fired.
Robert Franklin Williams was born in Monroe, North Carolina, on February 26, 1925, to Emma Carter and John L. Williams who worked as a railroad boiler washer. [2] [3] He had two sisters, Lorraine Garlington and Jessie Link, and two brothers, John H. Williams and Edward S. Williams. [3]