Civil Rights Coursework

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Civil Rights Coursework

Question 1.

Source A is a description of attempts to follow through school segregtion after the Brown Decision. Source A suggests that the people in Little Rock were all racist and believed strongly in segregation, it suggests that the crowd were extremely angry that a black girl was being sent to their school. From Source A we can tell that the people in Little Rock hated the fact that a black girl was attending their school, we can tell this because alot of hostility is shown in Source A. The crowd seems to be mainly adults and they are being very hostile towards her, even though she is only a little girl, the guard at the front of the school even pointed his gun at her in a threatening manner, 'he raised his bayonet.' Source A suggests that there was a lot of tension at the school, people were shouting abuse at Elizabeth Eckford. She seems to be alone in the mob, she has no-one around her to support her, 'I tried to see a friendly face in the mob', this statement shows that she didn't know anyone there at all, she must have