From the Supreme Courts decision of Brown v. Board of Education in 1955 to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1968African American students, lawyers, ministers and communities conducted a successful nonviolent campaign against the system of American apartheid ineleven states. This work is organized into four sections. The first describes apartheid in the U.S. before Brown v. Board of Education. The causes of the revolutionthe enforcement of apartheid laws by state governments, courts, police, and the ...
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From the Supreme Courts decision of Brown v. Board of Education in 1955 to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1968African American students, lawyers, ministers and communities conducted a successful nonviolent campaign against the system of American apartheid ineleven states. This work is organized into four sections. The first describes apartheid in the U.S. before Brown v. Board of Education. The causes of the revolutionthe enforcement of apartheid laws by state governments, courts, police, and the KKKare also analyzed. The second presents 54 confrontations in the struggle for Civil Rightsincluding court cases, boycotts, sit-ins, marches, demonstrations, and the desegregation of cities and schoolsfrom the Moton High student strike (in Farmville, Virginia) in 1951 to 1969s hospital workers strike in Charleston. The third is a series of 60 biographical profiles of leaders giving their educational and civil rights achievements. This section also includes a list of 40 historically significant activist organizations. The fourth section discusses six important Civil Rights laws and concludes with the general accomplishments of the struggle.
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