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Civil Rights Movement: Education Desegregation

A guide for Centralian College students in developing knowledge and an understanding of the Civil Rights Movement.

Brown versus Board of Education

The members of the Warren Court, taken in 1953

'On May 17, 1954, these men, members of the U.S. Supreme Court, ruled unanimously that racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional.'
By United Press International telephoto [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Integration of schools

Photograph showing a group of people, several holding signs and American flags, protesting the admission of the "Little Rock Nine" to Central High School.

Little Rock, 1959. Rally at state capital to protest the integration of Central High School.

John T. Bledsoe / Public domain via Library of Congress

James Meredith

James Meredith walking to class at University of Mississippi, accompanied by U.S. marshals

By Marion S. Trikosko, U.S. News & World Report [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Youtube video from Voices of the Civil Rights Movement

Charles Darwin University acknowledges the traditional custodians across the lands on which we live and work, and we pay our respects to Elders both past and present.
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