1. Civil Rights: Brown V. Board of Ed to failure of ERA
... of the Richmond News Leader noted "Here were the colored students, in coats, white shirts, 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 ragtag rabble, slack-jawed, black ... place. There was always a full lunch counter. Prominent black lawyer Z. Alexander Looby defended the protesters. While in court the judge simply turned his back on them. They were found guilty and charged $150 in fines. On Easter weekend Ella Baker of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SC...
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