... many blacks were arrested, beaten, jailed, deprived of their jobs, intimidated, and some even killed. With all this happening the government was forced to protect many black Americans and to guarantee them their rights. In order to enforce these rights federal legislations were passed, public facilities such as transportation and waiting rooms were now desegregated and blacks finally gained back their access ... . The Supreme Court had ruled that deliberately created segregation would place a psychological inferiority on the black child and that was absolutely wrong. The decision from th...

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... are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to ... also the founder of CORE. He realized that the black population would be seen as ignorant and inferior until they had equal education and job training.8 He demanded that the federal government provide programs to make education a...

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... the state to obey the law by sending in army paratroopers and the Arkansas National Guard to protect the students. It was the first time since Reconstruction that a president sent federal troops to overrule a state segregation law, and the event marked a turning point in civil-rights history. Still, King felt he needed to do even more to get his message out ... ' protest were hindered when he became the subject of more harassment from white authorities. In May 1960, King became the first person in Alabama to be tried by the state government for criminal tax evasion. He won the case, but ...

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