The second child of Martin Luther King Sr. (1899-1984), a pastor, and Alberta Williams King (1904-1974), a former schoolteacher, Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia on January 15, 1929. Along with his older sister, the future Christine ... the landmark Brown v Board of Education of Topeka decision of 1954. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks (1913-2005), secretary of the local National Association for the Advancement of Colored People chapter, refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery bus and was arrested. Activists coordinated a bus boycott that would...

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... IX seemed to lay dormnant, almost as if it didn't even exist. Cases came to a stop, no sexual discrimination cases dealing with athletics and Title IX were enforcemen. Then, in a 1984 decision, Grove City v. Bell, the U.S. Supreme Court interpreted the meaning of Title IX. The ruling stated that in order to be in violation of Title IX, the individual program who ... because the court determined that the damages were only worth about $1.1 million. Never the less, Tyler started the beginning of a new era in athletics, equal work, equal pay. The California Chapter of the National Organizat...

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