1. Civil disobedience in the civil rights movement
The Civil Rights Movement is the movement of the 1950's and 1960's to win equal rights for all African Americans. ... However, the Supreme Court said in 1896 that seperate bathrooms, train seating, and schools was allowed as long as the "blacks only" and the "whites only" sections were equal. ... In disregard of the court decision, there was no legal way to make sure the services was always equal. ... The Supreme Court ruled that blacks could not vote in primary elections, and that seperate but equal facilities had to be equal. in 1954 the court stated that...
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