... in response to 1954's court decision in Brown V. Topeka's Board of Education, that all segregated schools are "inherently unequal," 9 African American students enrolled at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. The struggle between segregationists and integrationists, State of Arkansas and the federal government, and President Eisenhower and Governor Orval Faubus of Arkansas became known as the "Little ... Advocates urged African Americans to take control of all aspects of their lives, politically, economically, et cetera. Blacks began having a new outlook, to analyze situations in...

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... African-Americans of the middle-class took an active part in the struggle for integration in the American society. 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 ... King's home was dynamited, the boycott was successful after one year and a few weeks. The buses were desegregated. King set about organising the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) which gave him a base of operation throughout the South. He also used it as a national platform from wh...

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... of an awakened people. Plans were made to extend protests all over the South. A new organization was formed that was called SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference) and King was elected its president, a position he held until his assassination. The aim of SCLC was to build upon the ... which King mobilized black southerners to protest against segregation and discrimination. SCLC's motto was "to redeem the soul of America- that reflected both its Christian orientation and its commitment to nonviolence. According to John H. Cartwright, By protesting in a spirit of nonviolence, Kin...

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