They prepared a series of leaflets at Alabama State College and organized groups to distribute them throughout the black community. ... On February 1, 1960 four Black college students sat down at Woolworth's lunch counter in downtown Greensboro. The four students - Joseph McNeil, Izell Blair, Franklin McCain and David Richmond - were in their first year at North Carolina A&T College. ... A national news service covered the story of the "well-dressed" Black college students who ended their sit-in with a prayer. ... Vanderbilt Divinity School student James Lawson led workshops on Gandhian ...

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SCLC differed from organizations such as the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in that it operated as an umbrella organization of affiliates. ... He earned an A.B. (1951) from Selma University and a B.S. (1953) from Alabama State College. ...

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Washington High School, he then entered Morehouse College in the fall of 1944 at the age of 15. ... He was elected student body president, was valedictorian of his class, won a prize as outstanding student, and earned a fellowship for graduate study. ... Student activism provided the spark that gave new life to the Civil Rights Movement. On February 1, 1960, four students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College (now University) demanded service at a Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro and continued to sit after their demands were refused. ... The first contact between the ...

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They were joined by newly formed groups like CORE (the Congress of Racial Equality) and by SNCC (the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee). ... Lawson would train hundreds of students in nonviolent techniques through the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). ... In September 1957, Eisenhower finally acted to protect civil rights when the state of Arkansas refused to admit nine black students to Little Rock high school. Eisenhower forced the state to obey the law by sending in army paratroopers and the Arkansas National Guard to protect the students. ...

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s family originated in African-American Baptists. 15 years old studious gold with honors enter Moore House School to study sociology at the end of their studies Koji Atlanta Moore College, Bachelor of Arts degree. Martin Luther King, Jr. again in Pennsylvania Krause Seminary and Boston University student, in 1951 he was awarded a bachelor's degree kloze Theological Seminary, in 1955 he received a doctorate in theology from Boston University. ... In 1960, black college students protest wave lifted the seat, which promotes the formation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Mart...

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The streetlights were on. Yet, it was three in the afternoon. The smog was so thick and black the sunlight cannot get through. Yesterday's newspaper rolls down the street as the wind gently blows, and the white working class tolerates no form of inter-racial mingling. Signs hang in storefronts read, "No Blacks,"" and "White Only."" ...

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During his stay at Harvard Thoreau spent a good deal of his time reading in the college library, the first good collection of books to which he had access. ... Henry later returned to Harvard and maintained a better than average scholastic record and at his graduation in 1837 was chosen as one of the honor students to speak on the "commercial spirit," at the commencement exercises, where in he startled his audience by suggesting, ""The order of things should be somewhat reversed; the seventh should be man's day of toil, wherein to earn his living by the sweat of his brow; and the other s...

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