... segregation minded Richmond News Leader wrote, "Here were the colored students in coats, white shirts, and ties and one of them was reading Goethe and one was taking notes from a biology text. And here, on the sidewalk outside was a gang of white boys come to heckle, a ragtail rabble, slack-jawed, black-jacketed, grinning fit to kill, and some of them, God save ... were no longer effective and the civil rights movement was breaking up (Chalmers 44). One of the most horrid days in the 60's would have to go down in the books as March 7, 1965. It was a Sunday and the Southern Christian Lea...

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• Approx Pages: 9
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• Grade Level: High School

... segregation minded Richmond News Leader wrote, "Here were the colored students in coats, white shirts, and ties and one of them was reading Goethe and one was taking notes from a biology text. And here, on the sidewalk outside was a gang of white boys come to heckle, a ragtail rabble, slack-jawed, black-jacketed, grinning fit to kill, and some of them, God save ... were no longer effective and the civil rights movement was breaking up (Chalmers 44). One of the most horrid days in the 60's would have to go down in the books as March 7, 1965. It was a Sunday and the Southern Christian Lea...

• Word Count: 2394
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School