Sentences with phrase «same lunch counters»

Then it took another hundred years of battling segregation through legislatures and the courts to allow kids with different color skin to attend the same schools and have their parents sit at the same lunch counters.

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These are the same hollow and hateful voices that kept blacks from eating at the Woolworth's lunch counters in the 1950s / 1960s.

MLK had to watch gay white men sit at the lunch counter after voting... gay is not the same as being black.

In this case, a black person could not eat a lunch counter, use the same bathroom or water fountain as someon white, ride at the back of the bus or stand - up if asked, attend the same church as a white peron, inter-marry, could not go into a store if asked to stay out, etc..

This is the exact kind of thing I always wished I had waiting for me when I would try to pack lunch for the office, instead of the same old leftovers or deli counter dry turkey sandwich — not just a salad but a welcome break from routine.

Post-integration, too many black people couldn't sit down at integrated lunch counters and buy a hamburger; 50 years later, too many people of every race have the same problem.

Since the desires of the climate movement are to limit the amount of greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere in order to ensure a safe environment in which we can live long into the future, protest actions taken by the movement are not necessarily seen as moral objections to unjust laws in the same way sitting at a lunch counter or taking a seat at the front of a bus obviously are.