By the time Rosa Parks was eleven, she was sent to Montgomery to attend Miss White's industrial school for girls. ... After Miss White's industrial School for girls closed in 1928, Rosa Parks began attending Booker T. Washington Junior High School. After Junior High School she attended the Laboratory School at Alabama State Teachers College for Negros, later to become Alabama State University (Greenhaw, 2007). ... Rosa Parks was also a member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). ...

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After home schooling, she attended Montgomery Industrial School for Girls and then Booker T. Washington High School. These schools were both for African-American students only. ... While in school, she worked as a seamstress and housekeeper. ... Nonviolent Peace Prize, and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference Annual Rosa Parks Freedom Award." ...

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During the years spent in his home, in the middle of all the hate and violence, King had learned tolerance of others, and began developing his morals on Christian love. ... In 1944, as a junior in high- school, student Martin Luther King Jr. wrote an entrance examination for Morehouse College. He was promptly accepted to the school, where he lived for four years as a pre-medical student. ... After the success of the bus boycott, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) was formed by King and other black ministers in 1957. ...

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While King was trying to build success in Montgomery, he and other black ministers came together to form the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. It was created to encourage the Christian faith and leadership into the African American community. ... Almost every major city in the U.S. has a street or school named after him. ...

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He also said that the blacks needed, "to protest,"" but in a peaceful way and that, "our actions must be guided by the deepest principles of our Christian Faith."" ... Malcolm did very well in school but, he dropped out after he reached high school because, teachers would often tell him that it was unrealistic for a black to have a real job. After Malcolm dropped out of school he moved to Boston to live with his sister. ...

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Ferguson "separate but equal " doctrine, not only intended for public schools but to other legal formed originations that pushed segregation including public transportation. ... Don't ride the buses to work, to town, to school, or anywhere on Monday. You can afford to stay out of school for one day if you have no other way except the by bus. ... He helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), a highly influential civil rights organization that worked to end segregation throughout the South. ...

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He also said that the blacks needed, "to protest,"" but in a peaceful way and that, "our actions must be guided by the deepest principles of our Christian Faith."" ... Malcolm did very well in school but, he dropped out after he reached high school because, teachers would often tell him that it was unrealistic for a black to have a real job. After Malcolm dropped out of school he moved to Boston to live with his sister. ...

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Board of Education of Topeka decision that ended segregation in the public schools. ... King had begun preparations to create the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. ... After the March on Washington, Rustin had turned his focus to the 1968 New York City School Boycott that resulted in Jewish teachers being forced out and also adding to the fact that despite the Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education that forced the desegregation of public facilities, the schools in New York City was still segregated racially9. ... With one of his proteges, Tom Kahn, Rustin wrote an article ...

• Word Count: 1949
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King's serious behavior and constant appeal to Christian brotherhood and American idealism made a positive notion on whites outside the South. ... In the early 1960s King led SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference an organization of black churches and ministers that aimed to challenge racial segregation.) in a series of protest campaigns that gained national attention. ... In May 1963 King and his SCLC staff raised anti-segregation marches in Birmingham by encouraging teenagers and school children to join. ...

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Parks mother worked as a school teacher in Tuskegee, Alabama. ... Rosa gave up school when she came close to graduating, around the same time Rosa got married. ... When Rosa had finished school she was lucky enough to get a job as a seamstress in a local sewing factory. ... Parks was also active in the SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference), the organization lead for a lengthy period of time by Martin Luther King. ...

• Word Count: 1975
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When Claudette Colvin, a fifteen year old high school student was arrested on March 2, 1955, and later found guilty for not relinquishing her seat (one that was reserved for black passengers) to a white person, the black community of Montgomery was outraged. ... I envy their unity, their good humor, their fortitude, and their willing ness to suffer for great Christian and democratic principles or just plain decent treatment" [p.103]. ...

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