In 1940, after graduating with honors from the 8th grade, Maya moved to Oakland California as a 14-year-old to live with her mother again where she attended George Washington High School. She studied drama and dance at night and was a scholar at the California Labor School. ... A few years later, at the request of Martin Luther King Jr., Maya Angelou became the Northern Coordinator of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. ...

• Word Count: 884
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

And here, on the sidewalk outside was a gang of white boys come to heckle, a ragtag rabble, slack-jawed, black-jacketed, grinning fit to kill, and some of them, God save the mark, were wearing the proud and honored flag of the Southern States in the last war fought by gentlemen. ... On Easter weekend Ella Baker of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) helped to organize a conference of sit-iners from around the nation. ...

• Word Count: 6511
• Approx Pages: 26
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

As a result of this by 1966 less than 1% of Southern schools had actually desegregated. ... The discriminatory practices of Southern City buses were meticulously detailed in John Howard Griffin's Black Like Me. ... In 1957 he became president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). ... The organization later became intimately involved with voting registration of southern blacks. ...

• Word Count: 1907
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

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 them, God save the mark, were waving the proud and honored flag of the Southern States in the last war fought by gentlemen. ... This case "_became the cornerstone of sweeping changes (Chalmers 17)" because the decade following the Brown decision "_witnessed a complex interplay of forces between black citizens striving to exercise their constitutional rights, the increasing resistance of southern whites, and the equivocal response of the fed...

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

Jim Crow laws enforced segregation throughout the southern states of the United States. ... Mexico relinquished California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, and Wyoming to the United States after being defeated in the Mexican-American War. ... In 1968, Mexican American students in Los Angeles, California staged a walkout. ...

• Word Count: 1191
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Southern government devised ingenious ways to keep blacks from voting, made possible by the absence of federal troops (62). ... First, racism and white supremacy, for the most part, dominated Southern law. ... Ironically, the last two listed were not Southern laws; respectively, the last two were laws of Arizona and Maryland (84). ...

• Word Count: 3013
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

He was the pastor of Dexter Avenue from September 1954 to November 1959, when he resigned to move to Atlanta to direct the activities of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. ... He was a founder and president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference from 1957 to 1968. ... His first big arrest came in 1949 and he served eight months in a California jail for burglary. ...

• Word Count: 1683
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Wallace, who before the running in 1968 was thought to be "small time," and a southern racist. ... After losing the election for governor of California in 1962, Nixon announced that he would no longer seek any government-affiliated office. ...

• Word Count: 1451
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

President Kennedy was never able to mobilize sufficient support to pass a civil rights bill with teeth over the opposition of segregationist southern members of congress. ... Rioting mobs in the Negro suburb of Watts, California, pillaged, burned and killed, while 500 policemen and 5000 national guardsmen struggled in vain to contain their fury. ...

• Word Count: 1339
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The Montgomery bus boycott lasted for more than a year, express a new spirit of protest amongst Southern blacks. ... In the early 1960s King led SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference an organization of black churches and ministers that aimed to challenge racial segregation.) in a series of protest campaigns that gained national attention. ...

• Word Count: 2208
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School