segregation in schools
Norfolk's Student Protests. 1939. Library of Congress. Web.
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Battle for Desegregation
"After many protests and riots, desegregation began in Virginia on February 2, 1959, after a nearly three-year battle in the federal courts that had started in the spring of 1956. Black students who sought to transfer into white schools were forced to go through a complex selection process, and the majority of applicants were rejected because of this process. This factor led to fewer than 12,000 of the approximately 235,000 black students in Virginia going to desegregated schools." White Protesters of Brown v. Board of Education. N.d. From "Forty Years of Desegregation". Web.
In 1957, Little Rock High School in Arkansas was integrated by African American children, and many white community members protested. The white students stopped attending the school in protest, and people all over the county protested the integration without success. The U.S. was forcing this integration and eventually the integration of Little Rock was over. The white students returned to school, where they then mistreated the African American students and the two races were separated within the schools
How the Koch Brothers Backed Public School Segregation. N.d. National Archives and Records Administration. Web.
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