• Hocutt v. Wilson, N.C. Super. Ct. (1933) (unreported), was the first attempt to desegregate higher education in the United States. It was initiated by...
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  • before the Supreme Court for the plaintiffs. Assistant attorney general Paul Wilson—later distinguished emeritus professor of law at the University of Kansas—conducted...
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  • Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967), was a landmark civil rights decision of the U.S. Supreme Court which ruled that laws banning interracial marriage...
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    Supreme Court ruled school segregation unconstitutional in 1954 in Brown v. Board of Education, Southern Democrats began a campaign of "massive resistance"...
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  • Decolonization". Southern Quarterly. 46 (3): 8–25. ProQuest 222201716. Mcwilliams, Wilson Carey (1999). "On Rogers Smith's Civic Ideals". Studies in American Political...
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    Drunk History about Montgomery, Alabama. She was played by Mariah Iman Wilson. In the second season (2013) of the HBO drama series The Newsroom, the lead...
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    Malcolm X)'". The New York Times. Retrieved June 19, 2018. Romano, Frederick V. (2004). The Boxing Filmography: American Features, 1920–2003. Jefferson,...
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  • increased after the United States Supreme Court's 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education to end segregation in public education, which it ruled...
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  • seat to a white person—to December 20, 1956, when the federal ruling Browder v. Gayle took effect, and led to a United States Supreme Court decision that...
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    United States Plessy v. Ferguson Separate but equal Buchanan v. Warley Hocutt v. Wilson Sweatt v. Painter Hernandez v. Texas Loving v. Virginia African-American...
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  • United States Plessy v. Ferguson Separate but equal Buchanan v. Warley Hocutt v. Wilson Sweatt v. Painter Hernandez v. Texas Loving v. Virginia African-American...
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    hesitant. Bridges was born during the middle of the Civil Rights Movement. Brown v. Board of Education was decided three months and twenty-two days before Bridges'...
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    Harry & Lena, For The Love Of Life (1969) A World in Love (1970) The Flip Wilson Show (1973) Free to Be ... You and Me (1974) The Muppet Show (1978) Grambling's...
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    name Operation Lantern Spike. Minister Ronald Denton Wilson claimed that his father, Henry Clay Wilson, assassinated King. He stated, "It wasn't a racist...
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    United States Plessy v. Ferguson Separate but equal Buchanan v. Warley Hocutt v. Wilson Sweatt v. Painter Hernandez v. Texas Loving v. Virginia African-American...
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  • the phrase "equal but separate". The doctrine was confirmed in the Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision of 1896, which allowed state-sponsored segregation...
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    ISBN 978-1-59558-498-4. Oppenheimer, David Benjamin (1993). "Martin Luther King, Walker v. City of Birmingham, and the Letter from Birmingham Jail" (PDF). U.C. Davis...
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    copyright. This led to a lawsuit, Estate of Martin Luther King, Jr., Inc. v. CBS, Inc., which established that the King estate did hold copyright over...
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    United States Plessy v. Ferguson Separate but equal Buchanan v. Warley Hocutt v. Wilson Sweatt v. Painter Hernandez v. Texas Loving v. Virginia African-American...
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    a meeting, warning him not to defy the Supreme Court's ruling. Woodrow Wilson Mann, the mayor of Little Rock, asked President Eisenhower to send federal...
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  • Ray Liotta. The song was mixed with You Can't Be A Beacon by The Masters V (Later: J.D. Sumner and the Stamps) in 1988. The song was sampled throughout...
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  • whereas black Americans were effectively singled out by the law. Woodrow Wilson was a Democrat elected from New Jersey, but he was born and raised in the...
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    United States Plessy v. Ferguson Separate but equal Buchanan v. Warley Hocutt v. Wilson Sweatt v. Painter Hernandez v. Texas Loving v. Virginia African-American...
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  • Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States, 379 U.S. 241 (1964), was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States holding that the...
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  • United States Plessy v. Ferguson Separate but equal Buchanan v. Warley Hocutt v. Wilson Sweatt v. Painter Hernandez v. Texas Loving v. Virginia African-American...
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  • United States Plessy v. Ferguson Separate but equal Buchanan v. Warley Hocutt v. Wilson Sweatt v. Painter Hernandez v. Texas Loving v. Virginia African-American...
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    authorship attribution to the white Anglo-American songwriter, Reverend Marvin V. Frey. Frey (1918–1992) said he wrote the song circa 1936 under the title...
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    within schools was unconstitutional. This was the final outcome of Brown v. Board of Education. Subsequently, Southern white political leaders sought...
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    process." After Robert McCulloch chose to not indict Brown's shooter, Darren Wilson, Jackson requested the involvement of a federal grand jury in the case....
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    United States Plessy v. Ferguson Separate but equal Buchanan v. Warley Hocutt v. Wilson Sweatt v. Painter Hernandez v. Texas Loving v. Virginia African-American...
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