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Brown V. Board at Fifty(Library of Congress Exhibition) The Library of Congress >> Exhibitions Find in Brown v. Board Exhibition Pages Home | Overview | Racial Segregation | Brown v. Board | Aftermath | Exhibition Checklist | Programs | Read More | Credits The "deliberate speed" called for in the Supreme Court's Brown decision was quickly overshadowed by events outside the nation's courtrooms. In Montgomery, Alabama, a grassroots revolt against segregated public transportation inspired a multitude of similar protests and boycotts. A number of school districts in the Southern and border states desegregated peacefully. Elsewhere, white resistance to school desegregation resulted in open defiance and violent confrontations, requiring the use of federal troops in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957. Efforts to end segregation in Southern colleges were also marred by obstinate refusals to welcome African Americans into previously all-white student bodies. Ruby Bridges, 1960. Gelatin silver print. By 1964, ten years after Brown, the NAACP's focused legal New York World-Telegram and Sun campaign had been transformed into a mass movement to Collection, eliminate all traces of institutionalized racism from American life. Prints and Photographs Division This effort, marked by struggle and sacrifice, soon captured the (148) imagination and sympathies of much of the nation. In many Digital ID # cph 3c26460 respects, the ideals expressed in Brown v. Board had inspired the dream of a society based on justice and racial equality. Mrs. Rosa Parks Fingerprinted in Montgomery, Alabama On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, forty-three, was arrested for disorderly conducted for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white Mrs. Rosa Parks being fingerprinted in passenger. Her arrest and fourteen dollar fine Montgomery, Alabama, 1956. for violating city ordinance, led African American Gelatin silver print. bus riders and others to boycott the New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection, Montgomery city buses. It also helped to http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/brown-aftermath.html establish the Montgomery Improvement Association led by a then unknown young minister from the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Martin Luther King, Jr. The boycott lasted for one year and brought the Civil Rights Prints and Photographs Division (119) Movement and Dr. Martin King to the attention of the world. Rosa Parks Arrest Record Rosa Parks was a leader in the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott, which demonstrated that segregation would be contested in many social settings. A federal district court decided that segregation on publicly operated buses was unconstitutional and concluded that, "in the Brown case, Plessy v. Ferguson has been impliedly, though not explicitly, overruled." The Rosa Parks's arrest record, Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the December 5, 1955. district court without opinion, a common Page 2 procedure it followed in the interim between Frank Johnson Papers, 1954 and 1958. Manuscript Division (118) Black Monday, 1954 Following the Supreme Court's decision on Brown v Board of Education, U.S. Representative John Bell Williams (D-Mississippi) coined the term "Black Monday" on the floor of Congress to denote Monday, May 17, 1954, the date of the Supreme Court's decision. In opposition to the decision, white citizens' Tom P. Brady. councils formally organized throughout the Black Monday south to preserve segregation and defend Title page segregated schools. The White Citizens' Council Winona, Mississippi: Association of movement in Mississippi, led by Thomas Pickens Citizens' Councils, 1955. Brady, a circuit court judge, published a http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/brown-aftermath.html handbook, Black Monday, in which the philosophy of the movement is stated, including General Collections (120) its call for the nullification of the NAACP, the creation of a forty-ninth state for Negroes, and the abolition of public schools. University of Alabama Students Protest Desegregation Autherine Lucy's dream of obtaining a degree in library science was finally realized when she officially enrolled at the all-white University of Alabama in 1956. While the court had granted her the right to attend the university, the white population seemed intent on making this impossible by staging riots. Students, adults and even groups from outside of Alabama University of Alabama Students burn shouted racial epithets, threw eggs, sticks and desegregation literature, 1956. rocks, and generally attempted to block her Gelatin silver print. way. Protestors, like the group pictured here, Prints and Photographs Division (121A) prompted the University to expel Lucy on February 6, 1956, in order to ensure her personal safety. Autherine Lucy's Attorneys Autherine Lucy, the first African American student to be admitted to the University of Alabama in 1956, is shown with her attorneys Thurgood Marshall and Arthur Shore. The case went to court in 1953, and a decision to prohibit the university from rejecting Lucy Thurgood Marshall and Arthur Shores, based on race was reached in 1955. This February 29, 1956. decision was amended days later to apply to all Gelatin silver print. African American students seeking to enter the Visual Materials from the NAACP Records, University of Alabama. Lucy enrolled on Prints and Photograph Division (123) February 3, 1956, but was expelled for her own Courtesy of the NAACP safety three days later. Marshall and Shores went back to court but were forced to withdraw http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/brown-aftermath.html the case due to lack of support. Lucy's expulsion was finally overturned in 1988. Autherine Lucy's Expulsion A day after Autherine Lucy's expulsion from the University of Alabama, Roy Wilkins sent this telegram to U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell requesting the institution of criminal contempt proceedings against all parties prohibiting Lucy from attending classes at the University. The federal government refused to Telegram. NAACP Executive Secretary intercede. Lucy's expulsion was finally Roy Wilkins to Herbert Brownell concerning overturned in 1988 by the Board of Regents. the expulsion of Autherine Lucy, She entered the University in earnest the February 7, 1956. following year and graduated in 1992 with a NAACP Records, master's degree in elementary education along Manuscript Division (121) with her daughter, Grazia, who was enrolled as Courtesy of the NAACP an undergraduate. School Integration in Clinton, Tennessee In 1956, Clinton High School in Clinton, Anderson County, Tennessee, was set to be the first high school in the South to be integrated after the Brown decision. Integration was progressing smoothly until John Kasper, leader of the White Citizens Council and a staunch Clinton, Tennessee, school integration conflict, segregationist, came to town. Protests and riots 1956. ensued from that day until early in December, Gelatin silver print. U.S. when several white citizens escorted the African News & World Report Magazine Collection, American students to class, as shown here. One Prints and Photographs Division (125C) of the escorts was badly beaten afterwards. As Digital ID # ppmsca 03093 a result of the episode the school was closed on December 4, but reopened six days later without incident. http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/brown-aftermath.html A Classroom in Nashville After Integration While many schools throughout the south were confronted with protesters attempting to prevent integration, Miss Mary Brent, principal of the previously all white Glenn Elementary Integrated classroom in Nashville, 1957. School in Nashville greets black and white Gelatin silver print. students, without incident, on the first day of New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection, school. Prints and Photographs Division (125A) School Dilemma In 1957, fifteen-year-old Dorothy Geraldine Counts and three other students became the first African American students to attend the previously all white Harding High School in Charlotte, North Carolina. They were greeted by angry white mobs who screamed obscenities and racial slurs at the African American School Dilemma--Youths taunt Dorothy Geraldine students. Counts's picture appeared in many Counts in Charlotte, North Carolina, 1957. newspapers as did others of black students Gelatin silver print. attempting to attend white schools for the first Visual Materials from the NAACP Records, time. Counts's family feared for her safety and Prints and Photographs Division (125B) withdrew her from Harding and sent her out of Courtesy of the NAACP state to complete high school. Anacostia High School, Washington, D.C. In the 1950s, Washington, D.C. black schools were both segregated and inadequate. Many schools were overcrowded and lacked adequate educational materials. This photograph shows Warren K. Leffler. the results of the Brown decision with both An integrated classroom at Anacostia High School, black and white students in the same Washington, DC, 1957. classroom in 1957. Today Anacostia, like many Gelatin silver print. of the public high schools in D.C. is attended by U.S. News & World Report Magazine Collection, http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/brown-aftermath.html predominantly African American students. Prints and Photographs Division (201) The Little Rock Nine Seventeen African American students were selected to attend the all white Central High School in 1957 but by opening day the number had dwindled to nine. Pictured here with Daisy Bates, a newspaper journalist and active member in the local NAACP, are nine students, Ernest Green, Thelma Mothershed, Elizabeth
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