The 1950s is a decade in which African Americans spoke out against inequality and injustice. For centuries African Americans have been fighting against racial discrimination, but the 1950s was the period in which a mass sequence of racial events took part against the African Americans. The racial events that occurred then began the Civil Rights Movement, which lasted for years. The first effective and successful ruling of this period was the Supreme Court case, Brown v. Board of Education. This landmark stated that racial segregation of children in public schools were in fact unconstitutional. This foundation then helped to establish the precedent “separate but equal,” which means that separate educational facilities for a particular race were inherently unequal. Other movements like the Montgomery bus boycott took place. This was a 13-month nonviolent boycott of city buses that took place after Rosa Parks was arrested because she refused to give up her seat up to a white man. After a year and 16 days of boycotting the federal court ruled racially segregated buses to be a violation the 14th amendment, which states that all Americans have equal protection under law. The 1950s was a decade filled with the constant demand of equality. Without the determination of the African Americans citizens of the United States, we most certainly would have been facing these problems today.