5. Why was education a key issue in the struggle for civil rights?
Education was a key issue in the struggle for civil rights because the Black People had not been educated in politics.
6. Why was Brown vs. board of education of Topeka case significant?
NAACP took the Topeka school board in Kansas to court as a test case. In ‘Brown vs. Topeka, Kansas’, NAACP argued that it was simply logic it was sensible to send sever-year-old Linda Brown to her nearest school rather then the all-black school several miles away from her home. On 17 May 1954 it was ruled that ‘in the field of public education the doctrine of “separate but equal” has no place’. The verdict also stated that separate educational facilities really meant unequal ones and that states should set up education system where black and white children attended the same schools.
7. What were the key features of the Little Rock case?
One of the most famous incidents occurred in September 1957 at Little Rock Central High School, Arkansas. Nine black students were scheduled to begin their studies at what previously been an all-white school.
8. Why was Little Rock important to the development of the civil rights?
When 9 black children were about to be sent to all-white school the Government of Arkansas said that he heard that there will be trouble so he put National Guard soldiers around the school to prevent the black children from entering. After the court ruling, the government however was forced to remove the troops and let the black children in. The children went to school on 5 September. They were met by a hostile crowd of 1000 people and the nine returned home at lunch time under police protection.
Eisenhower sent troops to Little Rock to protect the nine students. They remained there until the end of the month, then the National Guard, under the orders of Eisenhower, protected the black people for the end of the year. In September 1958, the government closed al the schools in Little Rock to prevent integration. But the Supreme Court ruled this action was against the constitution, and the schools were re-opened to both black and white students
9. What were the key features of the Montgomery bus boycott?
A bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama showed the power that the black Americans had if they took action together. In Alabama, as in most states in the south of the USA, blacks were only allowed seats at the rear of the buses and have to give up their seats if white people had nowhere to sit. In 1955, Rose Parks took a place in the middle of the bus and refused to give it up when asked to by a white person. She was ejected from the bus and arrested.
10. Why was the Montgomery incident so important- because of the victory or the way it was won?
