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The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963
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- There communities and states passed laws that allowed discrimination in schooling, housing and job opportunities; prohibited interracial marriages; and enforced segregation by creating separate facilities for African Americans and whites.†
p. 207.6
- A number of organizations and individuals were working tirelessly to end segregation and discrimination: the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), as well as Thurgood Marshall, John Lewis, Ralph Abernathy, Medgar Evers, Fannie Lou Hamer and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Along with many other people whose names have been forgotten, these men and women strove to change the laws through nonviolent resistance.†
p. 208.1
- Freedom Riders—African Americans and whites—took bus trips throughout the South to test federal laws that banned segregation in interstate transportation.†
p. 208.6
- Black students had enrolled in segregated schools such as Central High in Little Rock, Arkansas, and the University of Alabama.†
p. 208.6 *
- It is almost impossible to imagine the courage of the first African American children who walked into segregated schools or the strength of the parents who permitted them to face the hatred and violence that awaited them.†
p. 210.4
Definitions:
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(1)
(segregation) the act of keeping people or things separate -- especially people due to discrimination based on race, gender, ethnicity, or religion
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)