Brown v. Board of Education. (Separate but equal)

As crisis at littel Rock.

As I m reading the book of Martin Luther King jr. As I reach on a growing movement . Where I m reading crisis at Little Rock .

The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas.

Where nine black children who had wish to enter littel Rock central high school are forced to leave the school. As Daisy Bates the president of NAACP is the mentor , strategist for nine black students .

As the matter become a national news . Nine students has attempted many time to enter into the school but failed . Finally President Dwight D. Eisenhower dispatches 1000 of paratroopers .

As soldiers pushed back the mob and cleared the school & nine students headed to their classes.

From nine black students one has finished the school. But on this graduation day, 601 students walked to the platform to receive their diplomas. Six hundred of the students were white. One was black. For Martin Luther King, Little Rock would be the prelude to other direct action protest confrontations.

At the time of moment that year is very tenses year. but they were still subjected to a year of physical and verbal abuse .

Young U.S. Army paratrooper in battle gear outside Central High School, on the cover of Time magazine (October 7, 1957)

To separate them from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.”

– Chief Justice Earl Warren in Brown v. Board of Education, 1954.

As the crisis at Little Rock .

In the fall of 1957, Little Rock, Arkansas, became the scene of the first major battle over the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education.

The Brown decision had struck down the doctrine of “separate but equal” (segregated schools could exist if both black and white schools were of equal quality) that had plagued reformers who wished for black children to be able to attend the same public schools as whites.

The Tempting of America (page 82), Robert Bork endorsed the Brown decision as follows:

By 1954, when Brown came up for decision, it had been apparent for some time that segregation rarely if ever produced equality. Quite aside from any question of psychology, the physical facilities provided for blacks were not as good as those provided for whites. That had been demonstrated in a long series of cases … The Court’s realistic choice, therefore, was either to abandon the quest for equality by allowing segregation or to forbid segregation in order to achieve equality. There was no third choice. Either choice would violate one aspect of the original understanding, but there was no possibility of avoiding that. Since equality and segregation were mutually inconsistent, though the ratifiers did not understand that, both could not be honored. When that is seen, it is obvious the Court must choose equality and prohibit state-imposed segregation. The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.

In May 2004, the fiftieth anniversary of the ruling, President George W. Bush spoke at the opening of the Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site, calling Brown “a decision that changed America for the better, and forever.

I think segregation is bad, I think it’s wrong, it’s immoral. I’d fight against it with every breath in my body, but you don’t need to sit next to a white person to learn how to read and write. The NAACP needs to say that. Clarence Thomas.

Martin Luther King jr had runs a non violence moments as Mahatma Gandhi followed in India .

Its very difficult to follow, and believing in path of the King & hard to stand bu the them .

This article is just believe in the equal rights in everything .

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