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Civil Rights Wikispace- Please place your individual topic in the section below. Your entry should include a paragraph that explains the details and significance of the event AND 2-3 images that help to clarify what happened or who was involved.

Brown vs. Board of Education was a unanimous 9-0 decision stating "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." This unanimous decision overturned the Plessy vs. Ferguson case and violated the Fourteenth Amendment. The Board of Education originally was following the 1879 Kansas Law which permitted but did not require districts to REMAIN separate only for elementary schools. The Board of Education started integrating elementary schools in Topeka in August 1953. Ben Blevins Frock Bryan Rebert Montgomery BusBoycott 1955- because of 42,000 black residents in Montgomery boycotted riding the buses for 381 days they carpooled took taxis and walked. finally afre 381 days they got there right to ride the bus and sit wherever they choose no more segregation on the busses, but not only in Montgomery but in all of America. Rosa Parks started it all by refusing to give her seat up to a white man when she was told to move to the back of the bus. this affected the bus company because they almost went out of bussiness because none of the blacks rode the bus and they were the majority of the money for the bus company but they almost put the bus company out of bussiness for the 381 days.