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    Sarah Keys v. Carolina Coach Company, 64 MCC 769 (1955) is a landmark civil rights case in the United States in which the Interstate Commerce Commission...
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    Dovey Johnson Roundtree (category Activists from North Carolina)
    transportation by a court or federal administrative body. That case, Sarah Keys v. Carolina Coach Company (64 MCC 769 (1955)), which Dovey Roundtree brought before...
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    Freedom Riders (category African-American history of South Carolina)
    Commission (ICC) had issued a ruling in Sarah Keys v. Carolina Coach Company (1955) that had explicitly denounced the Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) doctrine of separate...
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    Orleans, 1895–1965, pp. 161–162 (University of Tennessee Press, 2011). Holtz, Sarah (April 19, 2019). "The Longest Walk: How A Kindergartener Became A Civil...
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    Commerce Act. September 1, 1953 - In Sarah Keys v. Carolina Coach Company, Women's Army Corps private Sarah Keys, represented by civil rights lawyer Dovey...
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  • handed down in 1955, Sarah Keys v. Carolina Coach Company, 64 MCC 769 (1955) as well as the companion train desegregation case, NAACP v. St. Louis-Santa Fe...
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    Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 2. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Johannes, Peter Van (1907). "Eight Beatitudes" . In Herbermann, Charles...
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  • Government Contracts. September 1 – In the landmark case Sarah Keys v. Carolina Coach Company, WAC Sarah Keys, represented by civil rights lawyer Dovey Roundtree...
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  • Commission bans bus segregation in interstate travel in Sarah Keys v. Carolina Coach Company. On the same day, the U.S. Supreme Court bans segregation...
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  • Army Corps Private Sarah Keys, closed the legal loophole left by the Morgan ruling in a landmark case known as Keys v. Carolina Coach Co.. The ICC prohibited...
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  • transport violated the Interstate Commerce Act in the 1955 case Keys v. Carolina Coach Co. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited legal segregation and...
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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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  • 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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    Brown v. Board of Education. It ruled that segregated schools were unconstitutional and ordered them ended. Sarah Keys v. Carolina Coach Company (1953)...
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    Levy and directed by Anthony Mackie was announced. Aurelia Browder Keys v. Carolina Coach Co. List of civil rights leaders Susie McDonald Montgomery bus boycott...
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    President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The U.S. Supreme Court issued its historic Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483, on May 17, 1954. Tied to the Fourteenth...
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    their own truck- and air- transport systems, as well as a publishing company that printed the country's largest black newspaper. As a leader, Muhammad...
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    them. In Phillips v. Martin Marietta Corp., a 1971 Supreme Court case about the Act's gender provisions, the Court ruled that a company could not discriminate...
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    gave a speech at Booker T. Washington High School in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. That speech was longer than the version which he would eventually deliver...
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  • integrate as well, including those based in the southern United States. The Carolina League, for example, integrated in 1951 when the Danville Leafs signed...
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    Lillie Mae Bradford in 1951, Sarah Louise Keys in 1952,[citation needed] and the members of the ultimately successful Browder v. Gayle 1956 lawsuit (Claudette...
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  • Till Released by Record Firm". The Carolina Times. December 31, 1955. p. 1. Retrieved April 19, 2019 – via North Carolina Newspapers. "Red River Dave – The...
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    and order and people started choosing which laws they'd break". South Carolina senator Strom Thurmond wrote to his constituents: "We are now witnessing...
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    Martin Luther King Jr. Day speech at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina in January 2006, Belafonte said that if he could choose his epitaph, it...
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  • participation of Cloud Eight Films. In 2010, reports indicated that The Weinstein Company would join Pathe and Plan B to finance the $22 million film, but by the...
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  • Elliott Davis v. Prince Edward County Gebhart v. Belton Sarah Keys v. Carolina Coach Company Emmett Till Montgomery bus boycott Browder v. Gayle Tallahassee...
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  • Brown v. Board of Education as heard before the Supreme Court combined five cases: Brown itself, Briggs v. Elliott (filed in South Carolina), Davis v. County...
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    the first public, community-based black radio station. The Durham, North Carolina, station broadcast until 1976, but influenced later activist radio stations...
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    origin, but known to be sung in the Gullah culture of the islands off South Carolina and Georgia, with ties to enslaved Central Africans. The song is thought...
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    1969 Abernathy also took part in a labor struggle in Charleston, South Carolina, on behalf of the hospital workers of the local union 1199B, which led...
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