Answer to Question #310404 in History for Holly

Question

Explain why there was progress in the civil rights movement between the years 1957-1961

Answer 1

In the case of Brown v. Board of Education, the United States Supreme Court declared segregation in public schools illegal in 1954, igniting the civil rights movement. Central High Institution in Little Rock, Arkansas, requested participants from all-Black high schools to attend the previously private school in 1957.