Leaflets were produced to publicize the boycott, and 18 African American taxi companies agreed to charge the bus fare rate rather than their normal rate. 26 year old Martin Luther King, Jr. was chosen to head the MIA. On December 5, 1955, King addressed over 4 thousand people at the Holt St. ... After King gave his logical and eloquent speech Abernathy then spoke and gave the three demands of the boycott. ... King's and Abernathy's homes were both bombed, along with his Hutchinson Street Baptist Church. The boycott initiated the modern use of nonviolent protest and made King a Na...

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THURGOOD MARSHALL During the 20th century I have read many books, newspaper articles and seen news broadcasts on two of the most famous Afro American Pioneers: Martin Luther King and Thurgood Marshall. Martin Luther King fought all his life for equal rights for Afro Americans, but Thurgood Marshall help elevate the Afro American civil rights struggles through legal precedents and timely court decisions. ...

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In Snyder vs. Phelps, the Supreme Court of the United States addressed the issue of "whether the First Amendment shields the [Westboro Baptist Church] members from tort liability for their speech."i In Snyder, the plaintiff, the father of Marine Lance Corporal Matthew Snyder, sought to recover damag...

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The US Supreme Court: Sexually Motivated? Following the defeat of Germany and Japan during World War II the United States almost immediately became burdened with another challenge, that of, containing their former ally, the Soviet Union. Known as the Cold War, this conflict inspired tremendou...

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Affirmative Action Equality for All? For the past one hundred and fifty years, the fight against discrimination has been a long, hard, and vastly debated topic. Many people thank the pioneering ideas and hard work from various minority and women organizations for enriching this nation with its di...

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The Dream Yet to be Realized. Almost fifty years have passed since the U.S. Supreme Court declared, in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, that laws separating the races in school are unconstitutional. Hundreds of lawsuits later, black and white students were bused back and for...

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