Sitting for Equal Service: Lunch Counter Sit-Ins, United States, 1960s"We were hoping [the sit-in] would catch on and it would spread throughout the country, but it went even beyond our wildest imagination."―Ezell Blair Jr., North Carolina Agricultural & Technical college student |
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... United States, a long-standing tradition of segregation, known as Jim Crow ... Supreme Court rulings and federal legislation in the 1940s and 1950s had ... U.S. civil rights movement. The GreensBORO FOUR Greensboro was a rather ...
... U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the case Plessy v. Ferguson that segregation didn't violate the rights of PLessy v ... court. A series of appeals eventually brought his case before the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1896 the court upheld Louisiana's ...
... U.S. Supreme Court outlawed primary elections reserved exclusively for whites and ruled against segregation on interstate transportation. CHALLENGING SEGREGATION IN SCHOOLS Referring to the U.S. Constitution, NAACP lawyers built a ...
... court af- firmed black students' right to equal facilities, Marshall mounted the sec-ond stage of the attack. This ... U.S. Supreme Court declared in the 1950s, thurgood Marshall, a lawyer for the NaaCp, brought cases against school ...
Lunch Counter Sit-Ins, United States, 1960s Melody Herr. reached an agreement. Rather than defy the Supreme Court, they announced that Greensboro's schools would follow the order to end segregation. Local newspapers and civic groups ...
Contents
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Defending the Status Quo | 36 |
Sitting Down at the Lunch Counter | 50 |
An Explosive Encounter | 66 |
Supporters and Opponents | 82 |
Uniting Forces | 100 |
Timeline | 140 |
Whos Who? | 142 |
Glossary | 146 |
Source Notes | 148 |
Selected Bibliography | 150 |
Further Reading and Websites | 152 |
Index | 154 |
Photo Acknowledgments | 160 |
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Sitting for Equal Service: Lunch Counter Sit-Ins, United States, 196s Melody Herr Limited preview - 2010 |