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- 41: History
- ... In 1952, the separate but equal laws were once again challenged in the case of Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. The case was based on the segregation of educational facilities. The NAACP changed their focus from integrating higher educational facilities to integrated grade schools. After the change, the NAACP stepped in on this case and argued that ... of Parks's trial, but Martin Luther King, Jr.and other prominent members of Montgomery's black community realized that here was a chance to take a firm stand on segregation. As a result, the Montgomery Improvement Association was formed to organize a boycott that would continue until the bus segregation laws were changed. Leaflets were distributed telling people not to ride the buses, and other forms of transport were laid on. The boycott lasted 382 days, causing the Bus ...
- 42: Address at March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
- ... the Emancipation Proclamation and setting blacks free. Then he goes on and says “One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacle of segregation and the chains of discrimination”. What he is trying to say is that it may say that blacks are free in written and signed handwriting but in real life black people are still not free from segregation. Another thing that he says is that black people got a “bad check”. “We got a bad check because in the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence people had signed ... will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream”. That quote meant that we the people will not give up until all this segregation between races is over with and settled. Then all throughout the end of his speech he talks about the same thing and that is how we the people will ...
- 43: Martin Luther King Jr
- ... Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, a church in Montgomery, Alabama, a church with a well educated congregation that had recently been led by a minister who had protested against racism and segregation. THE MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT In Montgomery’s black community there were longstanding grievances about the mistreatment of blacks on city buses. Many white bus drivers treated blacks rudely. It was not uncommon to find blacks being cursed out and humiliated because of the segregation laws being forced on them. These laws forced black bus riders to sit in the back of the bus and give up their seats to white passengers on crowded buses ... city buses to be desegregated. CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERSHIP In 1957 King helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization of black church and ministers that aimed to challenge racial segregation. The SCLC protested discrimination through marches, demonstrations, and boycotts. King made strategic alliances with northern whites that would improve his success at influencing public opinion in the United States. ...
- 44: The Jim Crow Laws
- ... or rooms in hospitals, public or private, where black men are placed. Jim Crow Laws have a long history that includes many court cases and disputes. Southern legislatures passed these segregation laws to create a social separation system and to keep whites as the supreme race in the south. They were also passed because after the Civil War the two races were able to do things together, but weren’t equals. Jim Crow Laws stopped the merge, and kept them separated. The first court case that challenged segregation was Plessy V. Ferguson in 1896. Homer Plessy filed a lawsuit because he felt that he was segregated unfairly on a train. The Supreme Court said that segregation was legal as long as facilities for blacks and whites were equal (separate but equal). This decision led to and outburst of more Jim Crow Laws in the southern ...
- 45: Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
- ... who received little schooling and rose to greatness on his own intelligence and determination. Martin Luther King was born into a family whose name in Atlanta was well established. Despite segregation, Martin Luther King’s parents ensured that their child was secure and happy. Malcolm X was born on May 19, 1925 and was raised in a completely different atmosphere than ... segregated bus, Rosa Parks' arrest sparked a year-long bus boycott that serve to notice throughout the Deep South that blacks would no longer meekly admit to the indignities of segregation. Despite an arrest during the Montgomery boycotts, King emerged more dedicated to social equality. In 1957, King established the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Dedicated to mobilizing the vast power of the black churches, blacks now had an unprecedented, powerful tool to combat the forces of southern democrats in favor of segregation. Less organized was the sit-in movement sparked by four black college freshmen in Greensboro, North Carolina. Nonetheless, the sit-in spread like wild fire throughout the south as ...
- 46: Birmingham, Alabama and The Civil Rights Movement
- ... for "confrontation." In Bull Connor, the civil rights movement found "the perfect adversary," to coin the author's term. There was no more vivid a picture of the injustice of segregation as "the confrontation between grim-faced, helmeted policemen and their dogs, and black children chanting freedom songs and hymns." (p.163) For a seven-day period in May 1963, the ... relationship between financial and political interests, the battle between local and federal political entities, and the south's desperate struggle to maintain a way of life that was becoming anachronistic. Segregation was still the law of the land as far as the citizens of Birmingham, Alabama, were concerned despite Supreme Court decisions to the contrary. In his inaugural remarks in 1957, upon winning the post of Commissioner of Public Safety after a four-year hiatus from politics, Connor said: "These laws [segregation] are still constitutional and I promise you that until they are removed from the ordinance books of Birmingham and the statute books of Alabama, they will be enforced in ...
- 47: Guaranteering Civil Rights
- As late as the 1950s, society in the Southern United States remained racially segregated by law. The segregation laws in these states were supported by an 1896 Supreme Court ruling. In the case of PLessy vs. Ferguson, the Court had ruled that "seperate but equal" public facilities for ... pattern that forced Southern black Americans to live almost totally segregated from white society. A strong civil rights movement in the United States had developed by the 1950s, and ending segregation in public schools became one of its primary targets. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) won a legal battle to gain admission for qualified black Americans ... their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone." School segregation laws, thereforem violated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment. The "separate but eaual" doctorine of Plessy vs. Ferguson was overruled. Opponents of segregation hailed the Court's ...
- 48: The Danger Of Having Been Blac
- Maya Angelou, the famous author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, has written through this book her autobiography and a look at the segregation in the early years of 1930's. On page 187 of that book she has written that: " It seemed terribly unfair to have a toothache and a headache and have ... not even believe they were human or real. She had lived it and had some terrible experiences from it. However, back in California, where she was born she understood the segregation with a certain realism. Sometimes I explain to myself that the history ofsegregation could not be otherwise. It would have been difficult for the master to accept equality with the ... with a white girl ". And whenever that happened, all the negroes were like on death row. It was very awful, at that age, two children were not only suffering from segregation, but they understood the situation also. How can I imagine that Bailey and Maya were scared whenMomma sent them to the white area to buy stuff. Should two little ...
- 49: Rosa Parks
- Rosa Parks Rosa Parks is a very resilient person. In her lifetime she has overcome much prejudices and segregation even after becoming used to following the segregation laws she found humiliating. Rosa Parks faced the many consciences she knew she would have for standing up for herself and her whole race and future generations. She even became ... Just taking part in these groups to help the advancement of colored people shows much resiliency. In 1955 when Parks was forty-two years old, she had taken to protesting segregation in her own quiet way. She did this by resiliently walking up the stairs of a building rather than riding the elevator marked for "blacks only." She also often ...
- 50: ASSATA Shakur
- ... The difference became even more attention grabbing, when she realized that the troubled looking neighborhoods belonged to the black, while the well-adhered blocks were homes of the white. This segregation troubled her deeply, given the circumstances; she lost much of her passion for her culture. Her culture lived in poor conditions, one caused mainly of their incomes. It was clear ... stayed with her, reaching her conscious further in her life as a women. Oppression took a great toll on Assata during her voyages down south. She became a victim of segregation. Her confrontations with the strict segregation laws bewildered her mind. Segregation was exhibited in all kinds of facilities, leaving very little black facilities available. At some points stopping for restrooms became a hassle. Without access ...
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