During the 1950's, racial separation in public schools, especially southern schools, was not looked at as a problem for many people. ... 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. When Oliver Brown attempted to enroll his daughter into a white elementary school because the distance to a colored school was too far, she was denied acceptance. ... Based in Atlanta, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference was established with the goal of changing...

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The Separate but equal" decision of 1896 confirmed the segregation in the South and soon everything was being segregated, the churches, schools, restaurants, even the toilets. ... With the help of the Christian church they managed to start a kind of non-violent revolution which finally made the white people understand the injustice of segregation, so that discrimination by law was finally abolished. ... The family sent Coretta and to school to get a good education. ... King set about organising the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) which gave him a base of operation throughout th...

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It is a testament to the greatness of Martin Luther King Jr. that nearly every major city in the U.S. has a street or school named after him. ... A six-year-old black girl like Ruby Bridges could be hectored and spit on by a white New Orleans mob simply because she wanted to go to the same school as white children. ... A new organization was formed that was called SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference) and King was elected its president, a position he held until his assassination. ... SCLC's motto was "to redeem the soul of America- that reflected both its Christian orientation...

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Janice leaned close to her Christian beliefs for guidance. ... It wasn't until high school that Janice's cultural identity changed. ... She recalls her African American studies in 10th grade, a private school, opening her eyes to the oppression and guilt that her grandfather had gone through. ...

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Schools all over the country then began to integrate their student body. ... Another women by the name of Claudette Colvin who was the age of 15 in high school was also handcuffed and taken to jail. ... Some organizations were The Black Panthers, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and The Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). ... The NAACP has stuck with its goal to promote racial separatism.2 The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) i...

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Washington High School". ... At seventeen, King decided to become a pastor in order to better influence people in social changes and to promote Christian ideals. ... In September 1951 King entered the University's School of Theology in Boston, Massachusetts. ... Amongst them was Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), a most influential and widespread organization. ...

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I agree with Cone's thesis because in my public school I learned nothing about Malcolm X. ... In school I did not learn about King's Campaigns, sit-ins, or being arrested. I remember learning King was a minister, a supposedly pure Christian, and won the great Nobel Peace Prize because he was willing to turn the other cheek. After asking my peers at UC Berkeley, what they learned in public school about X, they only referred to hate and evil but never his love, his transformation, or the role he played in achieving black self-determination, giving black's hope, or empowering ...

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In terms of his education his schooling consisted of the Atlanta Public school system followed by the Atlanta University Laboratory High School, and the Booker T. Washington High School His mother and father were very important figures in his life. ... There was much discussion about the segregated south and how schools, theatres, housing even drinking fountains were divided and how it was a "social condition rather than a natural order" Trying to achieve this is difficult enough without having to try and prevent the child from feeling inferior. ... Subsequently despite his parent's pre...

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African American women writers helped with the setback of these stereotypes and African American women have been develop to be seen as "living human being[s] with [their] own desires and needs" (Christian, Black Feminist Criticism 16). ...

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What was the Harlem Renaissance? What is a renaissance? A renaissance is a movement or period of vigorous artistic and intellectual activity. There was a famous renaissance in Europe during the transition from medieval times to modern times that is still taught today. The Harlem Renaissance was an African American cultural movement of the late 1920s and early 1930s that was centered in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. ...

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In the late 1800s, enslavers want to covert slave to Christians and replace work songs and folk songs, with evangelical hymns This failed, but the negro spiritual was born; which were folk songs as "composition[s] performed with religious expression." ... Lastly, African American music leads to the establishment of various schools, for African Americans, that offered degrees in the arts and th...

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The 1830 publication of the "Book of Mormon" by Joseph Smith, officially established the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Members of the Church of Jesus Christ believe that Smith, under divine guidance, translated a set of golden plates into the Book of Mormon. This was the first of se...

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The ideology of apartheid as proposed by Daniel Francois Malan and the implementation of these ideologies into societal regulations created a new wave of strong nationalist thinking. In conjecture with the attitudes on racial separation in America, South Africa was taking a radically opposite stance towards segregation with plans to further separate the races while in America the the seedlings of a civil rights movement began to take root. Fundamental to the understanding of these differing stances is the reasoning behind the driving forces of these doctrines and how they may or may not have ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate