... for the segregation minded Richmond News Leader wrote, "Here were the colored students in coats, white shirts, and ties and one of them was reading Goethe and one was taking notes from a biology text. And here, on the sidewalk outside was a gang of white boys come to heckle, a ragtail rabble, slack-jawed, black-jacketed, grinning fit to kill, and some of ... resistance of southern whites, and the equivocal response of the federal government (Robinson 2)."" From 1955 to 1965, boycotts, sit-ins, demonstrations, marches, and community organizing raised black people's spirits and expectatio...

• Word Count: 2137
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... for the segregation minded Richmond News Leader wrote, "Here were the colored students in coats, white shirts, and ties and one of them was reading Goethe and one was taking notes from a biology text. And here, on the sidewalk outside was a gang of white boys come to heckle, a ragtail rabble, slack-jawed, black-jacketed, grinning fit to kill, and some of ... resistance of southern whites, and the equivocal response of the federal government (Robinson 2)." From 1955 to 1965, boycotts, sit-ins, demonstrations, marches, and community organizing raised black people's spirits and expectation...

• Word Count: 2394
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School