Sentences with phrase «struggle against segregation»

Houston takes Marshall on a journey, looking in on the lives and losses of the men and women working in the grassroots struggle against segregation.

Not exact matches

Without Brown the nation would surely have faced generations of struggle against legal segregation.

As the churches led in the struggle to end segregation and gross discrimination against Blacks, they might have been the locus in which serious reflection on these difficult questions took place.

Released at the height of the African - American struggle against Jim Crow segregation, the book played a pivotal role in raising the country's awareness of racism while simultaneously serving to shame the South about its disgraceful legacy of lynching, oppression and discrimination.

Although that movement often deploys the rhetoric of equity and diversity to rationalize itself and enlists compelling, community - based representatives to promote its agenda, that agenda has typically worked against community interests and exacerbated inequities — draining resources from struggling districts, deepening segregation, diverting attention from systemic change to individual choice, and so on.

Of course there have been terrible crimes against members or suspected members of the LGBTQ community, and it might be fair to draw an analogy between some of those specific crimes, but not the American black civil rights struggle, not school segregation and bombing of churches, not the lynchings where in some places in the south any old tree may have been the site of a murder.