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Martin Luther King Central High School
549 wordsthroughout the nation. In fact, it was required by law in most southern states. In 1952, the Supreme Court heard a number of school-segregation cases, including Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. It decided unanimously in 1954 that segregation was unconstitutional, overthrowing the 1896 Please v. Ferguson ruling that had set the "separate but equal" the young minister, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The leaders organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which would deprive the bus company of...
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Warriors Cry By Melba Pattillo Beals
2,723 wordsWarriors Don't Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals In the book Warriors Don't Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals, the author describes what her reactions and feelings are to the racial hatred and discrimination she and eight other African-American teenagers received in Little Rock, Arkansas during the desegregation period in 1957. She tells the story of the nine students from the time she turned sixteen years old and began keeping a diary until her final days at Central High School in Little Rock. The story be...
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Montgomery Bus Boycott Civil Rights Movement
2,021 wordsCivil rights was and still is an ever changing picture. In the 1950? s, civil rights went from being a generally southern issue, to being a national concern. The issues of the day began to be spilled out over a new medium called television. During the 1950? s, television had become popular and spread throughout the United States. The racial issues of the south were now being seen in living rooms across the nation. The 1950? s laid the groundwork for what would become the massive civil rights mov...
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George W Bush Republican Candidate
3,032 wordsFirst Son: George W. Bush and the Bush Family Dynasty by Bill Minutaglio, details the history and upbringing of this years Republican candidate and gives insight as to the impact his family heritage has had on him as a person, and who and what has influenced him as a politician. The biography is mostly nonjudgmental towards George W. Bush, but does paint an image of him and his family that is exactly what he has been trying to deny throughout his whole political life: he was born with a silver s...
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