s equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the 14th amendment."(2) Southern officials and schools were not happy at all with the supreme court decision, and in 1957 formerly all-white Central High School blocked nine African American students from entering their school on orders from Arkansas Governor, Orval Faubus. President Eisenhower had to send in the National Guard and federal troops to get the students in the school. The historic lawyer in the Brown case was Thurgood Marshall, and he was not happy at all with the Arkansas Governor, but things quickly cooled down. Marshall was the head attorney for the NAACP and would later return to the Supreme court as the nation's first black justice. Even though this case only got rid of segregation in public schools, it proved to be a much larger victory for African Americans everywhere. "Brown dramatically increased the salience of the segregation issue, provided hope to African Americans, and led them to bring legal challenges to school segregation in the South."(3) The supreme court ruling on Brown vs. Board of Education was one of the biggest moments in black history and paved the way for the massive desegregation in the south.
             After the desegregation of the public schools, blacks received many civil rights that they had yet to experience. To earn these rights, African Americans had to go through numerous protests, sit-ins, and marches. Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat to a white person on a bus was a major turning point in the movement. On December 1, 1964, in Montgomery, Alabama Parks refused to give up her seat in the front of the "colored section" on a bus to a white person. Her defiance led her to be arrested, but she was later released, and a year later the busses were desegregated in the South. Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was a major participator in leading the boycott. King also endorsed nonviolent sit-ins in seg
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