For example, blacks and whites sat separate from each other in restaurants. There was a section for blacks and a different section for whites. When there were no more tables left for whites to eat at, blacks would have to give up their table to the white person. ... For example, from the Greensboro area, there were many people who wanted to help through peaceful protest and civil disobedience by participating in the sit-ins. ... This is important because the African Americans wanted the restaurant owners to see that even though they are of a different race, they are still valuable, paying cust...

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• Grade Level: High School

Many social changes that were addressed in the 1960s are still the issues being confronted today. ... In spite of all the turmoil, there were some positive results: the civil rights revolution, John F. ... But for most blacks, the tangible results were minimal. ... Black unity and white support continued to grow. ... The possibility of riot and bloodshed was always there, but the marchers took that chance so that they could accept the responsibilities of first class citizens. ...

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You can still find segregation in Minnesota. ... However, he still was not satisfied with his knowledge. ... Although King always realized that he wanted to support the improvement of the situation of the black Americans, he had still no precise plans of how to execute this project when he took over the community of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church of Montgomery, Alabama, in 1954. ... The quality of life of the blacks improved substantially. ... A group of four black college students organized a sit-in at a segregated lunch bar. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

He had reached the Lorraine Motel, there was an enormous crowd standing around the motel. ... He despised those crazed black people. ... Employees there told agents that someone by the name Harvey Lowmeyer purchased the items on March 30, 1968. ... "I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. ... I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

But the so-called Reconstruction period failed, although Blacks were now called citizens", they still had no civil rights. ... The law, jobs, political affairs and the mass media were still controlled by the white man. ... There he decided to enter the ministry, being influenced by his scholar Benjamin Mays and his father. ... There he met Coretta Scott, who studied music in Boston. ... Segregation was still common though. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The United States had embraced a "separate but equal" attitude toward black and white education. ... Although many holes still remained open as the judge never stated a specific time the desegregation of public schools had to be enforced, nor did it abolish segregation of public places. (Kluger) This was still a victory for the NAACP, which made a name for itself as a key group in the effort toward black and white equality. ... Forty thousand pamphlets were printed and passed out among the members of the black community. ... (SIRS Researcher) In order for there to be change there must be l...

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• Grade Level: High School

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. ... She agreed, and on December 5, 90% of Montgomery's Blacks stayed off the buses. ... King as president was that he was so new to Montgomery and to civil rights work t...

• Word Count: 3779
• Approx Pages: 15
• Has Bibliography