The United States had embraced a "separate but equal" attitude toward black and white education. ... Although all the schools in a "separate but equal" community were supposed to be the same, most schools that only allowed African Americans were far inferior to their white counterparts. ... After arguing that the "separate but equal" system was affecting children's ability to learn. ... The case was appealed to the Supreme Court where the court found the "separate but equal" educational system unconstitutional. ... While part of the SCLC, King encouraged nothing but peace and tranquility ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Civil Rights Movement African Americans have overcome many struggles as well as obstacles in the early years which have still not been terminated. African Americans have fought for freedom from enslavement, the right to earn a living, have land and a job, have equal justice, good quality educat...

• Word Count: 2726
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Such laws stated that blacks could not go to the same school with whites, that they had to use separate "colored only- rest rooms and drinking fountains, enter public places such as movie theatres and waiting rooms through separate entrances form whites, and ride in a special section in the back of buses and trains. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Situation of African-Americans in America In their motherland Africa, black people lived together in tribes with the families staying together in the village and leading a live according to strong morals and rites. Each tribe had developed a culture and often an own language, and the people ei...

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• Grade Level: High School

"One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws," nobel peace prize winner, civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. proclaimed. ... Even though their motivation and justification is evaluated separately, these two factors unavoidably overlap.On this perspective, civil disobedience can be supported just when utilized if all else fails. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"To the slave, your celebration is a sham your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery .There is not a nation on the Earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States," stated Frederick Douglass...

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Since the Civil War, much of the concern over civil rights in the United States has focused on efforts to extend these rights fully to African Americans. Resistance to racial segregation and discrimination with strategies such as civil disobedience, nonviolent resistance, marches, protests, boycotts...

• Word Count: 6511
• Approx Pages: 26
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School