... made for each race. The ruling in the Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education overturned the Plessy ruling. It stated that separate educational facilities were unequal and unconstitutional. Schools all over the country then began to integrate their student body. The Supreme Court had ruled that deliberately created segregation would place a psychological inferiority on the black child and ... integration.1 This started the result of many organizations that supported black power. Some organizations were The Black Panthers, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP),...

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... on crowded buses. The Montgomery bus boycott lasted for more than a year, demonstrating a new spirit of protest among Southern blacks. Martin Luther King's serious demeanor and consistent appeal to Christian brotherhood and American idealism made a positive impression on whites outside the South. "Mahatma Gandhi has done more than any other person of history to reveal that social problems can be ... 's. "I myself gained this insight from Gandhi. When I was in theological school, I thought the only way we could solve our problem of segregation was an armed revolt. I felt that the Christia...

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... efforts to enforce segregation through local laws. His vision of a just and equal society where race would be transcended fired the imagination of many Americans. King studied in the public schools of Atlanta, spent time at the Atlanta Laboratory School until it closed in 1942, and then entered public high school in the tenth grade, skipping a grade. After he completed his ... meeting. In a follow-up meeting in New Orleans on February 14, the group adopted the name Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and elected King President. From 1960 to 1962 King and the SCLC renewed the...

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