Seeking an education, this forced Arkansas to make a choice on how the federal court rulings would be applied. In 1957, nine school children in Arkansas, known today as the Little Rock Nine, enrolled at Little Rock Central High, a segregated white high school. Despite the landmark ruling, many states refused to follow federal law. Board of Education made segregation in public schools unconstitutional. In 1954, the Supreme Court’s ruling in Brown v.
The 1950s and 1960s in the United States were a period of continued struggle for civil rights and equality under the law, much of this work still continues to this day.
Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress. Rosa Parks was fingerprinted after a subsequent arrest for violating anti-boycott laws in 1956.Īssociated Press photo - New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection, 1956.
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