Talking About Freedom

  Brown V. Board Overview:     Brown V. Board of Education was a monumental Supreme Court case in 1954 in which the court ruled that racial segregation of students in public schools was deemed unconstitutional.  This court case was a focal point in the civil rights movement that helped establish that the  "separate but equal" doctrine was in fact flawed and not tightly enforced.  With the Plessy V. Ferguson case in 1896, the court stated that segregated facilities were legal as long as each facility for both black and whites were "equal". This would open up one of Americas' worst eras in our countries history, the Jim Crow laws, which established the "separate but equal" doctrine which prohibited blacks from sharing buses, schools, and any public facilities as whites. Brown's case:        In the early 1950s, the NACCP was pushing to fight against the segregation laws put on public schools, and litt...

  Albany Movement Albany Movement - New Georgia Encyclopedia . https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/albany-movement/. The Albany movement was one of the biggest anti segregation protest, formed on November 17, 1961 by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People,  protesters challenged all forms of segregation and racial discrimination. SNCC traveled to Albany, Georgia to protest against segregation in heavily populated black communities in hope to gain attraction and support from the masses. Following the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955, the Albany Movement focused on desegregating travel facilities and hoped to free anyone who was put in jail for other segregation protest. They practiced various nonviolent protest such as  sit-ins, jail-ins, boycotts, and litigation. “Albany Movement.” The Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute , 5 Apr. 2018, https://kingins...

 John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry from Oct. 16 to 18, 1859, was one of the biggest attempts to start a slave revolt in Southern states by taking control of various United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Many believe this to be the starting point of the Civil War, since Brown's raid was one of the heaviest news-covered abolitionist events, opening the door to future revolts and creating a domino effect of slave revolts in the South. Brown, along with his small  22 man army defeated a group of U.S. Marines that were guarding a federal armory in Virginia. Brown laid out a plan to take over the armory and seize all the weapons and ammunition, he would then arm slaves and head south near the Appalachian Mountains where he would build a haven for any runaway slaves. His plan, however, was flawed, he had no escape plan in case the mission didn't go as smoothly as planned. “John Brown's Raid.” Ushistory.org , Independence Hall Association, https://www.ushistory.org...