of Education of Topeka Kansas Schools. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the schools needed to be desegregated. "Separate educational facilities are unequal" Thurgood Marshall. This was a huge step in the civil rights movement, but not big enough.
             In December of 1955 in Montgomery Alabama, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat at the front of the "colored section" of a bus to a white passenger, defying a southern custom of that time. In response to her arrest the Montgomery black community launched a bus boycott, which lasted for over a year until the buses were desegregated December 21, 1956. As newly appointed president of the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. lead the boycott. He felt it was more honorable to walk with dignity than ride with shame.
             On February 1st 1960, four African American freshmen in college entered a Woolworth's in Greensboro, North Carolina. They sat down at the "whites only" lunch counter and ordered soda, doughnuts, and coffee. However, they were not there because they were hungry, they were searching for more than food. They were searching for equality and respect. Even though the white waitresses refused to serve them, they didn't leave or give up. They were there for something, and weren't going to leave until they got it. They ended up sitting at the counter for over an hour without service, until the counter finally closed for the day. This started "sit-ins" a non-violent type of protest all over America. By 1961 several hundred lunch counters had been desegregated in cities in Texas, Oklahoma, the border states of the South, and even Atlanta, Georgia.
             The fight for equality and desegregation had come a long way, but there was still so much more the African American community could accomplish. Dr. King was a prime example of this; he was always going above and beyond his duty as a civil rights movement leader to do ever...