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- 121: Famous African Americans
- ... victory came with Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kan. in which the Supreme Court struck down the "separate but equal" policy that was used to justify public school segregation. He also won cases against poll taxes, racial restrictions in housing and whites-only primary elections. He was the judge of the U.S. court of appeals for second circuit ... strong and independent abolitionist. While in Rochester, Douglass directed the city's branch of the "Underground Railroad," which smuggled escaped slaves into Canada. For years he worked to end racial segregation in Rochester's public schools. Douglass hoped that blacks would no longer be employed only as servants and laborers. He proposed that schools be established to train them to become ...
- 122: Martin Luther King Jr. 5
- ... the 381 days which the boycott lasted, he was arrested and jailed, repeatedly threatened, and his home was bombed. The boycott ended later that year when the Supreme Court outlawed segregation in public transportation. This was his first victory and alone made Dr. King a highly respected leader. When he went to India in 1959, he studied Gandhi's principle of ... rights, he died for his dream. Prejudices have always and will always exist among people. The prejudices this nation faces now, and has faced for years is racial oppression and segregation. Martin Luther King had a dream. He didn't want people to be "judged by the color of their skin, but the content of their character." He was determined that ...
- 123: Ending Of Apartheid In South A
- There were many factors which contributed to the ending of apartheid. After years of segregation and oppression of blacks, many different chronological events put together led to an eventual reform in South Africa of equality and democracy for everybody. However, the factor which I think ... PW. Botha, however after having a stroke, and being forced into bitter resignation, was replaced by FW de Klerk. De Klerk was commonly thought to be conservative and agree with segregation but his first speech announced plans to legalise the ANC, PAC and SACP and also that political prisoners would be released. He said he wanted to work with political groups ...
- 124: The Autobiography of Malcom X
- ... such as Martin Luther King and their supporters, who fought for equality of and integration among black and white, had participated in freedom rides and protest marches to finally abolish segregation. But suddenly, they faced opposition from not one, but two parties advocating racism and segregation: The white racists and the so-called Black Muslims. This radical Negro cult called "Nation of Islam" became in an astonishing short time a nation-wide movement and a threat ...
- 125: Women Who Changed the World: Rosa Parks
- ... Advancement of Colored People) Youth Council. In 1943 she was elected secretary of the Montgomery branch of the NAACP. In a celebrated incident in 1955 she was arrested for violating segregation laws when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger. This resulted in a boycott of the bus system by blacks, with Martin Luther King, Jr. leading the movement. In spite of harassment the boycott continued, and in 1956 segregated seating was challenged in a federal lawsuit. Within a few months bus segregation was ruled unconstitutional, and the buses were officially desegregated in December 1956. Parks, who had lost her job because of the boycott, moved to Detroit, Michigan, the following year, and ...
- 126: The Life of Booker T. Washington
- ... to him is not all people liked his belief. WEB Du Bois did not like Booker T. Washington's statements. He believed that gave the Ok to continue with racial segregation. I believe that Booker T Washington was a great leader for the Black community. His intentions were for the better of this country. His belief I think was right. All ... to him is not all people liked his belief. WEB Du Bois did not like Booker T. Washington's statements. He believed that gave the Ok to continue with racial segregation. I believe that Booker T Washington was a great leader for the Black community. His intentions were for the better of this country. His belief I think was right. All ...
- 127: Martin Luther King Reflection Essay
- ... other civil rights leaders formed the Southern Leadership Conference, which organized boycotts and sit-ins across the country. King gained national attention by using the press and television to denounce segregation. Under King's leadership blacks started acts of civil disobedience against discriminatory laws. King followed the methods of Mohandas Ghandi and Henry David Thoreau. King and his followers held sit-ins at lunch counters and rode on segregated buses. Others in the country boycotted discriminatory companies and their products, that practiced legal segregation and discrimination. The largest ever non-violent protest in Washington August 23, 1968, where 200,000 people attended. This was where King gave his famous " I have a Dream " speech ...
- 128: Martin Luther King: Civil Rights Patriot
- ... the 381 days which the boycott lasted, he was arrested and jailed, repeatedly threatened, and his home was bombed. The boycott ended later that year when the Supreme Court outlawed segregation in public transportation. This was his first victory and alone made Dr. King a highly respected leader. When he went to India in 1959, he studied Gandhi's principle of ... rights, he died for his dream. Prejudices have always and will always exist among people. The prejudices this nation faces now, and has faced for years is racial oppression and segregation. Martin Luther King had a dream. He didn't want people to be "judged by the color of their skin, but the content of their character." He was determined that ...
- 129: A Portrait of Duke Ellington By Tracy Frech
- ... name of jazz. In that time it was considered to be low and vulgar because it was music that grew directly out of the Black culture. In those early years, segregation was at one of its all time worst points in history. I think that is why Duke Ellington was one of the most important individuals to the growth and development ... band had appeared on Broadway and had even gone to Hollywood to make a movie. Duke's band was having a hard time performing in the south because of the segregation laws not allowing blacks to eat in white restaurants or finding accommodations that would allow blacks and whites to stay together in a half- decent room. In 1932 Duke added ...
- 130: Richard Wright
- ... segregated against, Wright spent much of his early childhood in pain, fear, and shame. He was repeatedly beaten by his mother and grandmother for trying to fight back at the segregation imposed upon him. He was also beaten by whites to whom he had to turn for jobs and he was resentful of the Jim Crow rules by which he had ... everything we know about his character has prepared us to expect rebellion. Wright could not, from his earliest years, tolerate this repression, and Black Boy is the chronicle of his segregation, not only from the white society but from with his own society. While Black Boy represents a picture of a personality corrupted by a brutal environment, it also presents natural ...
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