Sentences with phrase «end racial segregation»

In the way that civil right leaders and those in the movement gathered at the legendary Dooky Chase to share their ideas of how to end racial segregation and discrimination in the 1960's — fellows of... Read More

In 1964, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to end racial segregation and discrimination through civil disobedience and other nonviolent means.

Sussman is a 1978 Honors Graduate of Harvard Law School and has been one of the Hudson Valley's most prominent civil rights and trial lawyers since the 1980's when, as lead counsel for the Yonkers Branch of the NAACP, he helped end racial segregation in the City of Yonkers public schools.

The emotional heart of Obama's inaugural address came when the president connected the civil rights struggles of our own time back to Lincoln's efforts to free the slaves and King's efforts to end racial segregation.

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In the election of an African - American president less than a half - century after the end of official racial segregation in much of the country, these Americans see the triumph of the values enshrined in the US Constitution over America's legacy of social, political, and economic prejudice.

Emancipation did not bring about an end to lynchings, segregation, and racial discrimination.

The major flaw in this system — de jure racial segregation — has been ended.

De Klerk brokered the end of apartheid, South Africa's racial segregation policy, and supported the transformation of South Africa into a multi-racial democracy by entering into the negotiations that resulted in all citizens, including the country's black majority, having equal voting and other rights.

There is no denying Brown «s contribution to ending the evil system of legal segregation and racial oppression in the United States.

Both districts faced problems that reflected initial periods of severe racial segregation, followed by such remedial efforts as busing, followed by evidence of resegregation, followed by a need to end busing and encourage the return of, e.g., suburban students through increased student choice.

They know that racial segregation of schools ended in the 1950s.

While the end of court - ordered desegregation measures has caused a modest increase in segregation within public school districts, a large majority of racial segregation occurs across district lines.

The moral urgency of giving a poor students a decent education may be just as powerful as ending de jure racial segregation, but only one of those things is a crime that can be eradicated.

There have been improvements made with the ending of slavery & segregation, but there is still racial tension and prejudice.

For example, in 1967 Columbia, Maryland was a newly established, planned community designed to end racial and social segregation.

Wikipedia credits Anderson with «end [ing] the last formal vestiges of racial segregation in the Navy» during his stint as Secretary of the Navy.

Student courage at lunch counter sit - ins and on Freedom Rides led the way to end to legally - sanctioned racial segregation in America, and they were in the forefront of the movement that forced a President from office and, eventually, an end to the war in Vietnam.