Segeration
In 1865, the 13th Amendment outlaws slavery and in 1868 the 14th Amendment grants equal protection of laws to blacks. Although these Amendments existed, white people did not always treat blacks fairly. Blacks struggled for the end of segregation, which meant that they were "separate but equal." The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was formed in 1909. There was much protest against segregation and against the unfair ways blacks were treated. Famous protests were restaurant sit-ins and the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott. On December 1st, 1955, Rosa Parks, a civil rights activist was sitting on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Blacks were required to give their seat up to a white person and sit in the back or stand if there were no seats available. When a white man told her to give up her seat she refused and was arrested by Montgomery police. When other blacks herd this news, they instituted bus boycott in Montgomery that started on December 5th, 1955. On December 13th, 1956, the United States Supreme Court outlaws bus segregation, and the Montgomery bus boycott end in victory on December 21st, 1956 Many protest were held against segregation. Most of them were nonviolent. Martin Luther K
When all protesters were arrested and out of the restaurant and taken away by police, another wave of blacks who waited outside, went in and sat down. The schools for the blacks did not have the same funding and education quality that white children received. Board of Education" Britannica 1995, 2, 562"Civil Rights Movement" Encyclopedia Americana, 1990, 6, 634Greensboro Sit-Ins [Online] Available http://www. But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia. in 1963 where he addressed more then 250,000 marchers with his famous "I have a Dream" speech on August 28th, 1963. Only a few of the schools has busses for black students. Many of them were modeled after Ghandi's Protests' in India. Because of this, restaurants lost a lot of money and although it angered them some restaurants served the blacks at the lunch counters so that they would not protest and make the restaurant lose business. "Martin Luther King (collage)" Microsoft Encarta 98 Encyclopedia [on CD-ROM], 1998"Parks, Rosa, Louise" Encyclopedia Americana, 1997, 21, 464Penner, Louis, A. "Prejudice and Discrimination" Encyclopedia Americana, Deluxe Library Edition, 1990, 22, 545-545h.
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