Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Movement 1954-57 Brown vs. the Board of Education was the start of integration for schools. The ruling was that the black schools were separate and unequal. When the ruling came out the African Americans were terrified to leave their homes in fear of the increasing violence the southern white citizens were using against them. In the year 1955 there were 500 documented lynches in Mississippi alone. And there were probably more …showed first 75 words of 619 total…

…showed last 75 words of 619 total…for equal rights doing it non-violent all the time. During the civil rights movement the key concept was non-violent protest no matter how violent the opposition was. They figured if they were violent and fought back the whites who opposed them would just fight and use even more violence to bring them down. So in the end the after numerous protests, speeches, sit-ins, demonstrations, and marches African American won the battle of integration. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**