It was against the law, so she was arrested. ... After seeing the actions taken by the court and president, Congress passed laws too. In 1957 and 1960, two federal laws called the Civil Rights Act were passed. They reaffirmed equality of the races and made many racist state laws known as Jim Crow Laws. ... During the 1950's and 60's he acheived international fame by leading numerous peaceful marches, boycotts, and sit-ins. ...

• Word Count: 1562
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Rosa Parks challenged the city bus segregation laws by not surrendering her seat to a white passenger. ... King ...regarded it not only as a personal honor but also as an international tribute to the nonviolent civil rights movement (Fairclough, p. 147). ... As it says in the Bahai writings, Americas peace, prosperity, and even her standing in the international community depend on healing the wounds of Racism... and I believe Rev. ...

• Word Count: 1123
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In the midst of segregation, racism, and the Jim Crow laws, blacks in the south were heavily discriminated against in nearly all aspects of society. It was law that black passengers on the public busses had to give their seats to any white passengers if there were no more seats available. ... In 1998, Parks was given the International Freedom Conductor Award by the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. ... Instead of forming a mob and acting out violently against the bus company, the boycotting legally and peacefully forced the laws to change by financially dam...

• Word Count: 1023
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Kennedy, called for the adoption of new civil rights laws, with equal rights for blacks. ... December 1956, the US Supreme Court declared Alabama's law unconstitutional racial segregation, apartheid regulations on Montgomery buses were also abolished. ... Martin Luther King, Jr. then spoke law, he said that even under the Act apartheid arrested Rosa Parks may not be legitimate, because the Act does not specifically provide for the division of the ghetto and white area on the bus. "At this point the law has never been clarified," he said, a man in the audience loudly echo "Of course not." ...

• Word Count: 3040
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Since the Civil War, much of the concern over civil rights in the United States has focused on efforts to extend these rights fully to African Americans. Resistance to racial segregation and discrimination with strategies such as civil disobedience, nonviolent resistance, marches, protests, boycotts...

• Word Count: 6511
• Approx Pages: 26
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Especially in the South of the U.S. the law did very little to protect blacks. In fact, some laws, called segregation laws, often limited their freedom and discriminated against them. ... These laws grew out of a racist attitude toward blacks. ... Seldom did a court of law convict a white person for harming a black. ... Eisenhower forced the state to obey the law by sending in army paratroopers and the Arkansas National Guard to protect the students. ...

• Word Count: 3558
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In December 1956, the United States of America Supreme Court proclaimed that Alabama's segregation laws were unconstitutional. ... King preached that there were just laws and unjust laws and they had the right to go against the unjust laws. ...

• Word Count: 2369
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Although Colvin did not break any laws, she was still tried and convicted. ... Houses were still being bombed and the law officers increased harassment on Blacks. ... The boycott also brought national and international attention to the civil rights struggles occurring in the U.S., as more than 100 reporters visited Montgomery during the boycott to profile the effort and its leaders. ...

• Word Count: 1709
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

His strategy of nonviolent protest brought passage of far-reaching federal legislation that undermined southern efforts to enforce segregation through local laws. ... Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to abide by one of Montgomery's laws requiring segregated seating on city buses. ... After a successful first day of boycotting, the groups formed the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) to oversee the community action and to work with the city and busline officials to bring about fairer treatment of blacks within the existing laws. ...

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

In 1955, Ray broke his first federal law, stealing and forging postal money orders. ... Martin Luther King Jr., kill the most influential civil rights leader of the era and evade an international manhunt for more than two months, only to be busted by Scotland Yard going through a customs checkpoint he wasn't supposed to be at. ...

• Word Count: 1683
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• Grade Level: High School

He was always running from the law, and by the time he was twenty he was in a Massachusetts's prison for burglary. ... He said that the black revolution "is international in scope- and, "knows no compromise."" ...

• Word Count: 1782
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• Grade Level: High School

He was always running from the law, and by the time he was twenty he was in a Massachusetts's prison for burglary. ... He said that the black revolution "is international in scope- and, "knows no compromise."" ...

• Word Count: 1781
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• Grade Level: High School

AMARICA IN THE 1960"S The sixties were an exciting, revolutionary, turbulent time of great social and technological change: assassination, unforgettable fashion, new musical styles, "Camelot", civil rights, women's liberation, a controversial and dec...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Black Codes and the Jim Crow laws were set up to limit the movement and rights of the Blacks. ... 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. ...

• Word Count: 3965
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School