... respond to and support the Civil Rights Movement. the 1947 Supreme Court ruling in Morgan V. Commonwealth of Virginia prohibited segregation on interstate buses. A 1960 ruling banned segregation in bus terminals that served interstate routes. In 1961 CORE's leader James Farmer announced nonviolent protests against violations of these court rulings. These protests became known as "Freedom Rides." These ... He was considered the nation's leading African American Civil Rights activist. He was a cofounder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and was a Baptist minister. Dur...

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• Grade Level: High School

... University sat down at a whites only lunch counter inside a Woolsworth's Department Store in Greensboro, North Carolina and requested to be served. Abiding by the store policy the establishment refused to service these men who later became known as the "Greensboro Four". Though this was not the first sit-ins to occur this was the beginning of list of events that changed ... was by far the largest gathering the nation has ever seen at the capital and also the first that received vast coverage on television. People drove in and arrived by bus from all parts of the country to take part in ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... New Deal Liberalism + Military Industrial Complex ("Guns and Butter-) Creating a Government based on "Civilian-Militarism- (from the dollar-a-year men to the revolving door between defense-based industrialism and government service). (Take Secretaries of Defense as an example: Charles Wilson (1953-1957), former President of GM, Neil McElroy (1957-1959), former President of Proctor and Gamble, Robert McNamara (1961-1967), former ... witnessing scenes of white violence in Little Rock, sent in Federal Troops to: "To restore the image of America in the eyes of the world, as one nation, indi...

• Word Count: 3629
• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: Undergraduate