In school, Martin was a very intelligent and thriving student, he graduated from Booker T. Washington high school, doing good enough to skip 2 grades and graduate at 15 and finished college, top of his class at 19, getting a Bachelor of Divinity following it up with becoming a minister just like his father, preaching tolerance and the Christian belief of loving your neighbor. ... Malcolm had many troubles his father was killed by a white mob and his mother institutionalized; although he was advanced in his studies and wanted to be a lawyer, he became discouraged by the discrimination and the r...

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King attended segregated public schools where he advanced in his education. ... King's serious character and consistent demand appeal to Christian brotherhood and American optimism made a positive influence on whites outside the south. ... At the beginning of King's movement he organized and founded SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference) an organization of black churches and ministers that sought to confront racial segregation. ...

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In 1940, after graduating with honors from the 8th grade, Maya moved to Oakland California as a 14-year-old to live with her mother again where she attended George Washington High School. She studied drama and dance at night and was a scholar at the California Labor School. ... At age seventeen, she was a high school graduate and was eight months pregnant with her only child Clyde 'Guy' Johnson. ... Years later, Angelou and her son Guy, intending to migrate to Liberia, ended up settling in Ghana where she worked as the assistant administrator of the School of Music and Drama at the U...

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In 1954, the US Supreme Court had a landmark decision that ended racial segregation in public schools. ... The NAACP was seen as an important factor to the movement as they played a vital role in the organizational strength of the movement .The success of the Brown case can be seen in the city called Little Rock in 1957, where the local board of education granted 9 black students to a central high school that was previously an all-white school. ... This act forced President Dwight Eisenhower to call for federal troops to protect the black students who were admitted into the school. ... The SCL...

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From 1900 to 1920 full extension of segregation was exercised, not only in public transportation and schools, but in hospitals, churches, and jails as well. ... Fred Shuttlesworth, co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Committee (SCLC), said that the not guilty verdict "set in concrete the determination of people to move forward [with the Civil Rights Movement]." ...

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A gifted student, King attended segregated public schools and at the age of 15 was admitted to Morehouse College, the alma mater of both his father and maternal grandfather, where he studied medicine and law. ... Emboldened by the boycott's success, in 1957 he and other civil rights activists – most of them fellow ministers – founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), a group committed to achieving full equality for African Americans through nonviolence. ...

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