... did not find that these laws were fair. The Plessey v. Ferguson case marked the beginning of segregation in the South. Homer A. Plessey was a man with ⅛ of black in him who sat in a whites only section of a train. Since Plessy was considered black, he was arrested for seating himself in a section he did not belong to. The Supreme Court found that Plessy ... types of resistance led to not only the spread of injustice but also reform within the United States regarding the blatant discrimination of minorities. Mexico relinquished California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Okla...

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... the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) and thus began his influential position in the Movement. The success of the boycott was a sign that it was time for African Americans to start a new chapter in the battle for equality. In 1957, alongside Rev. Shuttlesworth, Rev. King and Dr. Ralph Abernathy formed the SCLC, which was a key element in the modern Civil Rights Movement ... . They adopted nonviolent mass action as a strategy and insisted that equal rights were essential for democracy. In 1960, soon after a group of black students sat in a North Carolina restaurant until it closed ...

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