... in Birmingham by encouraging teenagers and school children to join. Hundreds of singing children filled the streets of downtown Birmingham police officers were sent with attack dogs and firefighters with high-pressure water hoses against the marchers. Scenes of young protesters being attacked by dogs and pinned against buildings by torrents of water from fire hoses were shown in newspapers and on televisions around the ... world. National reaction to the Birmingham violence built support for the struggle for black civil rights. The demonstrations forced white leaders to negotiate an end ...

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... by placing these sorts of unjust laws on their citizens. This time saw blacks being forced to sit in the back of buses, drink from their own water fountains, being publicly humiliated in front of citizens as they were turned away from restaurants and other facilities that clearly stated no color people would be ... allowed to enter their premises. While many of the adults understood these practices, it ... a woman working the same job as a man makes 70 cents to his dollar. To me this social law is unjust. It degrades the human personality of women, saying in not so many words, the work ...

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