Throughout the Civil Rights movement segregation in public places were very common. Many of the restaurants would not serve the black people when they would come to eat. They would make them leave before they would call the cops. An example is with the freedom riders and how they were going into diners and testing their reactions. They would be kicked out and arrested because they would not leave. In this picture it shows a few of the white high school students holding up signs that say “We wont go to school with negroes”, “Strike against Integration”. These people were going to school in Alabama and that was the first school to be desegregated. With all the bad talk about colored people, the students started to believe it as well. But, this was a great moment for our country because with school integrated, education would be good for everyone.
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