... of violating the city's segregation ordinances. She was fined fourteen dollars for her civil disobedience. A movement in Montgomery quickly developed after her arrest. Fifty ministers and civic leaders met on December 2, 1955 and began a boycott. The leaders were E.D. Nixon, a regional official of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, and Ralph Abernathy, a NAACP activist and secretary of the black Ministral Alliance. ... Rights Movement. The Supreme Court decision in Gayle et al V. Bowder, on November 13, 1956, ruled that bus segregation in Montgomery was unconstitutional. The decis...

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... a seamstress when she could not find a job to suit her skills. She was also a long-time NAACP worker. When she was arrested in December 1955, she had recently completed a workshop on race relations at the Highlander Folk School in neighboring Monteagle, Tennessee. She was a well-respected woman within ... one-day boycott, followed three months later by a weeklong boycott, resulted in buses that were more desegregated yet still had some separate seating. On Thursday, December 8, the fourth day of the boycott, King and other Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) officials met with lawyer...

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... states, most of which went to the current Texas Governor and Republican candidate George Walker Bush. After the networks, through the use of wire services and exit polling, became sure enough to give Kentucky and Indiana to the Governor as well, Bush enjoyed a sensible lead over his opponents, ... in Florida should be recounted. Meanwhile, with a 537-vote lead, Katherine Harris had already declared George W. Bush the winner in Florida and on December sixth, the Republicans were already picking electors to represent the state6. Gore, facing defeat eye to eye, still refused to concede just...

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... right to control their own reproductive processes. They started doing public speeches about the abortion issue. Now that their cause was becoming known, all that was needed was a plaintiff. In December of 1969, a young pregnant woman by the name of Norma McGorvey became their plaintiff. Norma McGorvey is "Jane Roe," the pseudonym she assumed to remain anonymous as the lead plaintiff ... decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy." (Roe, 1973). This particular case was argued twice. The first time Jay Floyd, Assistant Attorney General for Austin, Texas, argued it on December 13, 1...

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... Reagan, and took that position on September 26, 1986. Associate Justice John Paul Stevens, born April 20, 1920. Nominated to Supreme Court by President Ford, and took his seat on December 19, 1975. Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, born March 26, 1930. First woman nominated to Supreme Court, by President Reagan. She took her seat on September 25, 1981. Associate Justice ... ) and Debbie Stabenow (Junior Senator). Senator Levin was first elected to his seat in 1978 and has been reelected four times. He serves as the Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Senator Stabenow wa...

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... that the fetus is a human life from the moment of conception, invalid. Six years later the Supreme Court empowers states to impose abortion restric! tions in Webster vs. Reproductive Health Services case, which upheld a Missouri ban on the use of public facilities, money or employees, who are involved in performing abortions. In 1992, a mostly conservative Supreme Court states that abortions can ... vs. Casey case. Two years later, the Madsen vs. Women's Center Inc., the Supreme Court allows judges to create abortion clinic safety zones to protect against anti-abortion protesters. On De...

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... by the state. The major section of Title II the Heart of Atlanta Motel violated was: "All persons shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, and accommodations of any place of public accommodation, as defined in this section, without discrimination or segregation on the ground of race, color, religion, or national origin ... amendment or the 13th amendment as being "involuntary servitude". The vote on the decision of the court was nine to zero favoring the United States. The decision was read on December 14, 1964 merely ...

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