... place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. The courts ruling marked the end of an era. [Kosof pp. 22, 23] Other incidents and court cases were helping to lay the groundwork for desegregation. In December 1955, a Black woman named Rosa Parks made headline news by sitting in the front of a bus. She was dragged off, arrested and convicted. Reverend Martin Luther king Jr. organized ... although we have made great strides in equalizing humanity we still have a long way to go. People need to learn to look beyond the color of a persons skin or ethnic background to form an o...

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