1. The Modern Civil Rights Movement
Now, hostile whites, who did not know how to treat blacks as equal human beings, surrounded, and still held authority over, freed African Americans in the South. ... Ferguson court case ordered separate but equal accommodations for black and white Americans, however, in most situations, the separated facilities were like night and day. ... These events raised public awareness of the need for the African American community to ban together and demand equal rights. ... They adopted nonviolent mass action as a strategy and insisted that equal rights were essential for democracy. ... Without ...
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