The United States had embraced a "separate but equal" attitude toward black and white education. Children that came from white families and were white themselves would attend school with only white children. ... When Emmett showed some local boys a picture of a white girl who Emmett claimed was his girlfriend, one of them told him to go and talk to a white woman that was standing inside a store. ... In 1955 Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on the bus for a white man. ... When a white man stepped on the bus and told her to stand and give him her seat she refused. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

A six-year-old black girl like Ruby Bridges could be hectored and spit on by a white New Orleans mob simply because she wanted to go to the same school as white children. ... Seldom did a court of law convict a white person for harming a black. ... The end of the boycott became a model of hope and success to people everywhere. ... Overnight, he found himself the leader of an awakened people. ... Levison would become King's closest white friend and "money man-. ...

• Word Count: 3558
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Each tribe had developed a culture and often an own language, and the people either prayed to their own Gods or (especially in north and central Africa) followed the teachings of the Koran. ... Blacks finally accepted this picture conveyed especially by the white press. ... The law, jobs, political affairs and the mass media were still controlled by the white man. ... With the help of the Christian church they managed to start a kind of non-violent revolution which finally made the white people understand the injustice of segregation, so that discrimination by law was finally abolished. ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School

There have been some white people who have been involved in the civil rights movement such as a man named John Brown. ... In the front of the bus were seats that were only allowed to white passengers. ... Black power basically rejected white American cultural and held that racism could not be eradicated from the hearts and minds of white people. ... Malcolm believed that a common foe, the white man, hindered black, brown, red, and yellow people's freedom worldwide throughout most of his life. He believed that evil was and inherited characteristic of white men. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Johnson asked, "Was it sound policy to make all those colored people citizens? ... First, racism and white supremacy, for the most part, dominated Southern law. ... - Public facilities had "white" entrances and "colored" entrances (78)... - Negro barbers could not tend to white women (83)... - Trains were required to provide "white" cars and "colored" cars (84). ...

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• Grade Level: High School

One of the most important experiences, which gave me a lasting impression, concerned American people's attitudes towards Mexican people. ... Rosa Parks, an African American woman, refused to surrender her bus seat to a white person. ... They were told to leave because this bar was only for white people. ... During the summer of the year 1961 some groups of black and white students went with their busses from the North to the South. ... It was the biggest civil right demonstration in history, and for the first time, white and black Americans stood together as one nation. ...

• Word Count: 4457
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• Grade Level: High School

With the eventual success of the civil rights movement, it is important to trace back to its origins and the people and organizations that played a vital role in making the African American people's dreams become a reality. ... This secret society and brotherhood was seen as a space where people could talk about new ideas in a safe place. ... Prince Hall and his white counterparts were fighting for equality and while in battle the white masons made him a brother, i.e.: a freemason. ... His lodge was not recognized as a real Masonic lodge by the white Freemasons, but he did not let this de...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Some people are born to be certain things in life. ... King would soon come face to face with this black and white struggle soon enough anyway when his two best friends, young white boys who lived across the street, were no longer allowed to play with him. ... Subsequently despite his parent's preachings to him that being a good Christian he should not hate the white man but love him, the question arose in his mind. ... What ensued in his early adolescent life was in fact a deep hatred of white people and everything they stood for. ... The story behind the boycott features one Rosa Parks,...

• Word Count: 3793
• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: High School

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) took up the case along with similar cases in the four other states. ... On December 5, 1955, King addressed over 4 thousand people at the Holt St. ... The white community was split concerning the boycott. ... On February 27, sit-iners in Nashville were attacked by a group of white teenagers. ... Civil Rights organization involved included CORE and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). ...

• Word Count: 6511
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• Grade Level: High School

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Women's Political Council, the Baptist Ministers Conference, the city's African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Zionist ministers, and the community at large united to organize a boycott of the buses. ... He benefited from the criticism of white New York lawyer Stanley D. ... Then on May 20 they arrived in Montgomery and were beaten by a white mob. ... In the aftermath of the agreement, white extremists bombed King's hotel and his brother's home, igniting riots by blacks. However, black leaders, whit...

• Word Count: 2619
• Approx Pages: 10
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• Grade Level: High School

King vowed that until the Negro members of society were granted the same rights as the white man he would continue to violate those laws which were morally unjust in an attempt to bring about justice stating that "It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. ... This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"" (SullenToys, 2011). Martin Luther King implied that he felt that law had not been used to promote the common good of all men equally and that ...

• Word Count: 2706
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Signs hang in storefronts read, "No Blacks,"" and "White Only."" ... No matter where you went there was a white elitist lifestyle, blacks were second-class citizens. ... King stated in 1957, at his parish in Montgomery, Alabama: History unfortunately leaves some people oppressed and some people oppressor. ... Some people do that. ... Another forty to fifty people began marching daily on city hall-and were arrested every time. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

At the start of Malcolm X's journey as a self-educated black leader he talked a lot about hating white people, was a black Muslim with a nationalistic ideology, and spoke with violent rhetoric to intimidate white people. ... King unlike Malcolm believed in nonviolence and was willing to work alongside white people. ... The media portrayed Malcolm X in a negative and incorrect manner because they only addressed one aspect of his life, his contempt for white people, when he is multifaceted. ... These newspaper quotes are archival resources and they are significant because they are owned ...

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Kennedy in the White House, he said: "There is no Birmingham, we can not sit here today." Here in the white police strongly opposed racial integration known. ... House church hall and aisles are packed with people, they looked inside from the window in the hall seats up to see that when he spoke to the crowd of strangers, his voice low, slow pace, no Unlike other opening remarks. ... He knows that this is the group of people who will build momentum, but they are waiting to see how his boot. ... Martin Luther King, Jr. then spoke law, he said that even under the Act apartheid arrested Rosa Park...

• Word Count: 3040
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• Grade Level: High School

SCLC differed from organizations such as the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in that it operated as an umbrella organization of affiliates. ... The Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR) was founded in Birmingham, Alabama, on 5 June 1956, after Attorney General John Patterson of Alabama outlawed the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in the state. ... "We appeal to the citizenry of Birmingham, Negro and white, to join us in this witness for decency, mora...

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During this time period according to the Internet article " Four Little Girls and the Fight For Freedom", Birmingham, Alabama was segregated and dominated by "white, racist power structure". ... The daughter goes on to put on "white gloves" and "white shoes", which symbolizes purity and innocence (Line 20-21). ... The child represents the innocent people who were killed in Alabama during the Civil Rights Movement. This proves that Alabama was not safe for innocent people. ... In 1963, church burnings and bombings were a fear of the people of the community leaving them with a feeling of insec...

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jjjjjOn December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to move after the bus driver demanded that she give her seat to a white man, resulting in her arrest. ... Edgar Daniel Nixon, then leader of the Montgomery chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), spoke with Parks, telling her that hers was the case that would launch a massive boycott. ... Both King's and Ralph Abernathy's homes were bombed and the membership of the local White Citizen's Council doubled. ... After purchasing several items, the four students sat at the lunch counter rese...

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It was almost impossible to convict a white person of a crime against a black person but countless times innocent black people were found guilty for crimes against whites. ... On the third day more than sixty people came to the store for the sit-in. On the fourth day there were over three hundred people taking part in the sit-in which now spread to other stores in Greensboro. ... There were an estimated 250,000 people who participated in this march. ... People drove in and arrived by bus from all parts of the country to take part in this march, in fact it was reported that over 2,000 buses, 21...

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This essay explains the events and people of the sixties from 1960 to 1970. One thing people remember about the sixties was the years of the "American Camelot". ... He lead marches and spoke to millions of people. ... Starting in 1960 sit-ins began all around the south, the people were fighting for the end of segregation. ... Rioting breaks out in Detroit killing people and injuring many in 1965. ...

• Word Count: 4042
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School