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. ... Milam, his brother-in-law, took Emmett at gunpoint. ... This followed the laws that were enforced to seg...

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Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream"" speech in comparison with George Wallace's inaugural address highlights the issue of segregation and seems to imply the philosophical views of the two men with regard to positive verses natural law, a subject's duty to obey the law, how law should or should not be used to promote the common good, the harm to others principle, and the roles paternalism, autonomy, and morality should play in determining the aims of law. ... King implies that until the morally unjust laws cease to be thrust upon generations of Negros they cannot be satisfied...

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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. ... In fact, some laws, called segregation laws, often limited their freedom and discriminated against them. 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. These laws grew out of a racist...

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In 1952 the Supreme Court was approached by four states, Kansas, South Carolina, Virginia, and Delaware, along with the District of Columbia, challenging the segregation in public schools. ... Black fifth grader Linda Brown of Topeka, Kansas was not allowed to attend a white elementary school. ... "This event was the turning point in the desegregation of public schools, and the beginning to equality among all races." ... Topeka's Board of Education, that all segregated schools are "inherently unequal," 9 African American students enrolled at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. ....

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Gaining momentum, Congress also passed the Fourteenth Amendment, making everyone born in the United States (or brought up in the United States) to be a citizen, and declaring "no state could abridge their rights without due process of law or deny them equal protection under the law (Boyer, et al. 505)." ... Thus the federal government could enforce the new laws. ... First, racism and white supremacy, for the most part, dominated Southern law. ... - Published literature against certain Jim Crow laws was illegal and punishable by six months imprisonment (83)... Ironically, the last t...

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In the early months of 1963, most public schools in the south were still segregated; even though racial segregation in public schools was invalidated by the Supreme Courts unanimous decision in Brown v. ... Using this outline of love and non-violence, which is a modification and combination of Jesus and Gandhi's beliefs, King assembled a group to contest the laws in Birmingham, Alabama. ... "Eight local clergy published a letter referring to King and his fellow civil rights activists as outsiders, calling the protests unwise and untimely' and praising law enforcement, in particu...

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Schools, restaurants, social events and even water fountains were segregated - whites and blacks shared very little. ... This case eventually made its way to the Supreme Court which ruled in Meredith's favor stating that he had the right to be admitted to the state school. ... The governor of Mississippi strongly opposed him attending this school and even went as far as to have the state legislature pass a law prohibiting any person who was convicted of a state crime from admission to a state school. ... Despite harassment during his two semesters on campus, Meredith graduated in Augus...

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His strategy of nonviolent protest brought passage of far-reaching federal legislation that undermined southern efforts to enforce segregation through local laws. ... King studied in the public schools of Atlanta, spent time at the Atlanta Laboratory School until it closed in 1942, and then entered public high school in the tenth grade, skipping a grade. ... Washington High School, he then entered Morehouse College in the fall of 1944 at the age of 15. After attending Morehouse College, King decided to attend Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania, a very liberal school. ... ...

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Shuttlesworth issued the "Birmingham Manifesto," which explained the black community's decision to act: "We act today in full concert with our Hebraic-Christian tradition, the laws of morality and the Constitution of our nation," Shuttlesworth proclaimed. ...

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Aquinas instilled that all human or positive laws were to be deduced by their compliance to the natural law. An unreasonable law is not a law, in the full feeling of the word. ... New Mexico State University stated that, "There are two natural law hypotheses around two distinct things: i) a natural law theory of ethical quality, or what's good and bad, and ii) a natural law theory of positive law, or what's lawful and unlawful.... Lawful positivism and the natural law theory of positive law are opponent perspectives about what is law and what is its connection to equity/profound...

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Kennedy, called for the adoption of new civil rights laws, with equal rights for blacks. ... s family originated in African-American Baptists. 15 years old studious gold with honors enter Moore House School to study sociology at the end of their studies Koji Atlanta Moore College, Bachelor of Arts degree. ... December 1956, the US Supreme Court declared Alabama's law unconstitutional racial segregation, apartheid regulations on Montgomery buses were also abolished. ... Martin Luther King, Jr. then spoke law, he said that even under the Act apartheid arrested Rosa Parks may not be legitima...

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Washington High School". ... In September 1951 King entered the University's School of Theology in Boston, Massachusetts. ... As a result of the racial segregation laws black Americans were permanently abased in busses. ... As a consequence she was arrested for violating the city's segregation law. ... The marchers demanded equal justice for all citizens under the law. ...

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The Black Codes and the Jim Crow laws were set up to limit the movement and rights of the Blacks. ... 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. ... The law, jobs, political affairs and the mass media were still controlled by the white man. ... The family sent Coretta and to school to get a good education. ... Nine pupils had to be escorted by federal troops as they tried to enter Central High School in Little Rock. ...

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It also barred any state from taking a persons life, liberty, and property without due process of law and from denying equal protection of laws. ... 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. ...

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Destined to fill the void of support for a race of people, who having been kicked in the teeth for so many years, were finally willing to rid their lives of oppression and to stand up and be counted, not just in the eyes of the law, but in the hearts of the people. ... 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, theatr...

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Supreme Court declared by 9 to 0 ruling Alabama's segregation laws unconstitutional and Montgomery buses were desegregated. ... Gayle in March 1954, the Council's members outlined their wishes: a city law that would make it possible for blacks to sit from back toward front and whites from front toward back until the bus was filled, a decree that black individuals not be made to pay at the front of the bus but go to the rear to enter, and a promise that buses stop at every corner in black residential areas as they did in white communities. ... City officials obtained injunctions again...

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African Americans have been fighting for their rights for decades. The African American civil rights movement changed everything. This social movement looked to outlaw discrimination towards black Americans and obtain their right to vote. The movement did not turn to violence to get what they wanted, instead they demanded political and economic self-sufficiency. The movement was filled with major campaigns of civil resistance. ...

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