Brown V. Board of Education, George Wallace, White Resistance, and Little Rock Central High
Brown V. Board of Education Rachel Robinson ALSO NEED TO DO WHITE RESISTANCE, LITTLE ROCK CENTRAL HIGH, AND GEORGE WALLACE!!!!! 1 Brown v. Board of Education The Civil Rights movement began in the 1950?s ? African Americans returning from war expected change, but they didn?t get it After World War II, Thurgood Marshall, the NAACP?s chief council, focused on ending segregation in public schools In 1954, the Supreme Court combined several different cases and subsequently issued a general ruling on segregation in public schools One case focused on Linda Brown, an African American girl who was denied admission to her neighborhood school in Topeka, Kansas because of her race