African Americans had to drink from different water fountains, were not allowed to sit at the front of the bus, and there were two different schools, one for the colored kids and one for the white kids. ... Board of Education which decision outlawed school segregation. ... Martin Luther King Jr. head up a new organization called the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and worked on the Civil Rights Act of 1957. ...
Schools all over the country then began to integrate their student body. ... 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), The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) is an agency, which is for organizations as well as individuals, that are engaged in non-violent protest in the major cities of the United States. ...
King attended segregated public schools where he advanced in his education. ... King's serious character and consistent demand appeal to Christian brotherhood and American optimism made a positive influence on whites outside the south. ... At the beginning of King's movement he organized and founded SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference) an organization of black churches and ministers that sought to confront racial segregation. ...
She was enrolled in the private Montgomery Industrial School for Girls. ... Washington Junior High School. She soon dropped out of school at 16 years old to care for her grandma. ... One year later she received her high school diploma. ... Martin Luther King Jr. a minister at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church was the president of Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA), which directed the boycott and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). ...
As a child, Rosa attended a private all-black Montgomery Industrial School for Girls in Pine Level, Alabama. She was exposed to countless incidents of racism and segregation, especially on her way to and from school. As a teen Rosa went to Alabama State Teachers College for high school. ... Around this time Rosa was beginning to wonder why no one was doing anything about the racism and segregation problems, so as soon as she was out of school and had turned 18 she joined the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP) and was a strong member from the start. ... In Detro...
Rosa attended the Montgomery Industrial School for girls, and graduated from the African American Booker T. Washington High School in 1928.She attended Alabama State College for a brief time after graduating high school. ... House of Representatives (achievement.com) She served for 25 years while actively continuing her work with the NAACP and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. ...
King was so gifted that he was accepted into Morehouse College at the age of 15, without even finishing high school. ... King, now the age of a high school senior, attended Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania. ... In 1958, King wrote his first book, Stride Toward Freedom, and organized the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). ...
He was able to graduate from his segregated high school at the age of fifteen and in 1944, entered Morehouse College, a distinguished institution designed for Negroes where both his father and grandfather had attended. ... King that arranged the boycott and made sure that no African-American took the Montgomery buses to school, work, or wherever else they may be going. ... After the boycott ended successfully, King was dubbed president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which he had organized. ...
King attended "black-only" schools his entire primary education, and graduated at the age of fifteen. ... (Edna 1) In 1957, King was elected president of a new organization called; The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). ...
From 1900 to 1920 full extension of segregation was exercised, not only in public transportation and schools, but in hospitals, churches, and jails as well. ... Fred Shuttlesworth, co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Committee (SCLC), said that the not guilty verdict "set in concrete the determination of people to move forward [with the Civil Rights Movement]." ...
