requires states to treat individuals equally under the law In its landmark decision the Supreme Court unanimously declared that separate but equal has no place in the field of public education because to separate is to make unequal At their black only school children gather to warm themselves around a stove in their classroom Black youngsters relied on tattered used textbooks and supplies handed down from schools for whites Boynton v Virginia 1960 In 1958 Bruce Boynton a black Howard University law student boarded a bus in Washington D C bound for Montgomery Alabama In Richmond Virginia the bus stopped briefly so passengers could eat Boynton went into the terminal restaurant and sat in the white only section When told to move he refused was arrested and fined 10 He took his case to the Supreme Court The Morgan decision had ruled that racial segregation in interstate transportation was unconstitutional Now in Boynton the court extended its ruling declaring that segregation among interstate passengers at bus station facilities restaurants lunch counters waiting rooms and restrooms also
violated the law SEPARATE EQÜA EDUCATION MOCKERY CIVIL RIGHTS SEPARATE EQUAL EDUCATION IS MOCKERY Everybody 5E Eheatonal Oya PEl Job Oppertal 1 وأسماه أول أس 3 Young students black and white from six Texas schools protest segregation in 1949 THE SIT INS In February 1960 four black students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University took seats at the local Woolworth's white only lunch counter in Greensboro North Carolina They politely ordered coffee but they were refused service and asked to leave When they told their classmates about what had happened the local protest grew in size Within two months more than seventy thousand young people black and white in fourteen states were conducting sit in campaigns The
protests eventually spread throughout the United States wherever discrimination was practiced The Greensboro NC sit ins began when David Richmond Franklin McCain Ezell Blair Jr known now as Jibreel Khazan and Joseph McNeil sat down on February 1 1960 at Woolworth’s white only lunch counter and waited for service Press photographers were not allowed into the store the first day of the demonstration On the second day of the peaceful protest McNeil seated from left and McCain are joined by Billy Smith and Clarence Henderson and more than a dozen others as the sit in movement grew
MAY 1961 SUNDAY 14 28 MOTHER S DAY MONDAY 15 22 29 MEMORIAL DAY TUESDAY 29 16 16 2 23 30 WEDNESDAY 3 10 17 24 31 THURSDAY 4 11 18 FRIDAY 51219 613 20 SATURDAY 27 TWELVE DAYS IN MAY FREEDOM RIDE 1961
