Civil Rights on Occupations
Segregation
In the late 19th century, segregation had became a problem. African Americans as well other races were fighting to gain not only equality but desegreation.
Little Rock Nine , 1957
In 1957, Nine African american Students attempted to intergrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. these students were recruited by Dasiy Bates on account of their criteria of excellent grades and attendance. As president of the Montegomery Improvement Association. Martin Luther King wrote President Eisenhower requesting a swift resolution allowing the students to attend school. People protested this. Segergationist as well as Arkansas's National Guards deployed by their governor Faubus stood blocading the school.
Southern Manifeto
In March 1956 , 82 representative and sourthern senators issued the " Southern Manifesto " which said that the supreme court abused its judicial power and that those who signed the document would overturn the decision from Brown v Topeka and stop the forcible desegregation of schools in the south. In response to Southern opposition, in 1958 the Court revisited the Brown decision in Cooper v. Aaron, asserting that the states were bound by the ruling and affirming that its interpretation of the Constitution was the "supreme law of the land."
Montgomery Bus Boycott
On december 1st 1955, African Americans protested riding the bus in montegeomry after the arrest of Rosa Parks. This lasted for 13 months until the US supreme court found the conditions for riding the bus unconstitutional. The segeregating of buses this way came from the case of Ierene Morgan which she was victories in. But the interstae commerce clause in segregation only applied to interstate bus travel. The southern bus companies immediatly got around the restriction set by the Morgan ruling by instuiting their own Jim Crow regulations.Rosa Parks was a seamstress, also a secretary for the chapter of the NAACP in Montgomery. Her first incident happened twelve years before she got arrested. She was stopped from boarding a bus by James F. Blakes. On December 1, 1955, Parks was sitting in the frontmost row for black people. When a Caucasian man boarded the bus, the bus driver told everyone in her row to move back. At that moment, Parks realized that she was again on a bus driven by Blake. While all of the other black people in her row complied, Parks refused, and was arrested.On the Night of parks arrest, the Womens Polictical Council passed out flyers