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. ...

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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. ... June Jordan notes that King never in all of his public speaking thanks Ella Baker, Fannie Lou Hamer, or any women for the work that they did within the Civil Rights Movement. ...

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