Desegregation In The 1960's

In the 1950’s and 1960’s, the Civil Rights movement caused many good changes for black Americans including desegregation in schools and public area. Elizabeth Exford was happy to go to her first day of school at Central High School, in Little Rock, Arkansas, for the year 1957-1958. As she got there, a mad mob of people and the Arkansas National Guard blocked her path, making her walk away. President Eisenhower helped her and eight other negro students attend high school and were escorted by soldiers.Three years prior to that, the U.S. had banned segregation in schools, but the South often ignored it. A different negro did not like how slow the pace of school desegregation was going. In 1963, only nine percent of negroes went to school. At the pace it was going, integration in all Southern schools would only be complete in the year 2054. There were court orders issued to enforce school
On December 10, 1964, King received the Nobel Peace Prize. Martin Luther King Jr. became the youngest person and the third black person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. He also received a medal, a citation, and $54,000. He gave away all of the $54,000 mostly to the SCLC and the rest of it went to CORE, NAACP, SNCC, the National Council of Negro Women, and the American Foundation for Peace. Martin Luther King Jr. believed America would change. He was jailed over thirty times and had fifty threats of murder against him. King was a skilled speaker and could do things like tell gang members about nonviolence and how to tell a president that they have been waiting long enough for their rights. He appeared on TV often and wrote many articles and six books such as The Measure of a Man and Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story. King had charisma that helped him in his fight for rights. All in all, King was a man who wanted rights for all blacks and wanted