1. The Civil Rights Movement
... be separated by race. African American children received the right to attend public schools and receive equal educational opportunities as any other American child.1 The decision of this case would soon overturn the decision of the Plessy v. Ferguson case, which the Supreme Court approved segregated facilities that were "separate but equal." This would be a step forward in the right direction for blacks but segregation and discrimination still ... Parks, E.D. Nixon, Jo Ann Robinson, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Rosa Parks was the most well known person to come out of the boycott. On the ...
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