... black citizens of Montgomery, Alabama said no more to segregation, inhuman treatment, violence and the humiliation that they received not only from the Bus Company, but from white citizens and high ranking political figures as well. Working diligently with great, influential black leaders, Robinson and the group she led help organized a boycott that started a civil rights movement that would last a decade ... to the way it had been, it in fact got worse. Blacks were ready to protest, however they needed something to spark the movement. When Claudette Colvin, a fifteen year old high scho...

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• Grade Level: High School

... part of the president of SCLC, King stressed the importance of voting r ights for the Blacks at Lincoln Memorial. He was invited to West Africa for the celebration of Ghana's independence. In an effort to raise his understanding of Ghandi's beliefs, in 1959 he visited India. SCLC began to teach students about the passive resistance technique in hope that they would ... . Malcolm struggled to exist as an African-American in a Anglo-Saxon society. Louise was sent to a mental asylum which forced her children to be foster children. He attended Mason Junior High, where he was the only black s...

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• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School