Laws, known a Jim Crow Laws, legalized racial segregation, which submitted African-Americans to second-class citizenship, whilst enforcing white supremacy. (Jim Crow Laws, 2014 MLK National Historic Site) These laws enforced the segregation public schools, restrooms, restaurants and even drinking fountains for whites and blacks. ... (Pinder, K & Hanson, E 2010 A Historical Perspective of Segregation, Amsterdam Law Reform) For decades, civil rights activists had been fighting these laws and social customs to secure equality for all Americans; however, these advances proved ineffective in disma...

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Board of Education of Topeka decision that ended segregation in the public schools. ... At this time, this was Rustin's first event being in the backstage role since his arrest in Pasadena in 1953 on sodomy charges that led to his firing from the Fellowship of Reconciliation and prior to his involvement in the War Resisters League as well as bringing attention to his sexuality, in which homosexuality was against the law during the 1950s until its revocation in 2003. ... After the March on Washington, Rustin had turned his focus to the 1968 New York City School Boycott that resulted in Je...

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