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Daisy Bates

The Civil Rights Movement in the United States had its political, legal, and social struggle to gain full citizenship rights for black Americans and to achieve racial equality. The reconstruction after the civil war provided some economical and political opportunities but equality was not one of them. The civil rights movement was first a challenge to segregation, the system of laws and customs separating blacks and whites that whites used to control blacks after slavery was abolished in the 1860s. During the civil rights movement, individuals and civil rights organizations challenged segregation and discrimination with a variety of activities, including protest marches, boycotts, and refusal to abide by segregation laws. Some believe that the movement began with the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955 and ended with the Voting Rights Act of 1965; there is a debate among many whether the movement has ended at all.

A landmark court case in 1954, Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, in which the Supreme Court of the United States unanimously declared that it was unconstitutional to create separate schools for children on the basis of race. Most civil rights leaders would agree that the Brown ruling ranks as one of the most imp

This was Daisy’s account, seen through her eyes and how she remembered it, of a time in history that a town could be turned upside down by nine black students wanting to go to a white school. Her story is one of many that happened not only in the south but also all over America. From the time the Negro was enslaved here in America, he fought for his freedom and the respect of those around him. Booker T. Washington was but one black that did not stop with all the adversity that came at him and reading Daisy Bates book, she showed a lot of the tenacity that Washington processed. Daisy’s account of what happen in a southern town called Little Rock was very inspiring and interesting. Her book, without any other factual interpretations and/or other leader’s story, continues to show the spirit and strength of American and its people.

It was also sad that Eugene G. Smith, Little Rock Chief of Police, shot and killed his wife and himself. Were the stress and pressures so great that he felt there was no other way? Was his involvement with the black students irritating those that voted for him that he and his wife were really murdered by one of the white groups?

How did Governor Faubus disobey a federal order, an act that the president of the United States didn’t understand himself, and why wasn’t he removed from office? Why didn’t congress take action against Governor Faubus? After the governor called out the National Guard to keep the nine blacks from entering Central High, president Eisenhower finally had to take action against the governor for violating their rights. To Eisenhower it was unthinkable for a state governor to defy a federal court order. “There must be respect for the Constitution,” he explained, “—which means the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the Constitution—or we shall have chaos.” He ordered the Arkansas National Guard into federal service, which put it under his orders rather than those of Faubus, and sent the 101st Airborne Divisio

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