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Question 0

What was brown versus Board of Education of Topeka

Answer 0

This case the father of eight-year-old Linda Brown charge the Board of Education of Topeka Kansas with violating Linda’s right by denying her ignition and all-white elementary school for blocks from her house. The nearest all-black elementary schools 21 blocks away

Question 1

Who was thurgood Marshall?

Answer 1

In 1938, Houston placed a team of his best law students under the direction of thurgood marshal. Over the next 23 years Marshall and his NAACP lawyers would win 29 out of 32 cases argued before the Supreme Court

Question 2

What was the southern Christian leadership conference

Answer 2

After the bus boycott ended King joined with ministers and civil rights leaders in 1957 to found the SCLC. It’s purpose was to carry on the nonviolent crusades against the evils of second-class citizenship. Using African-American churches as a base the SCLC plan to stagecoach us demonstrations throuhkout the south.

Question 3

What was the student nonviolent coordinating committee

Answer 3

In April 1960 Baker help students at Shaw University, African American university in North Carolina, to organize a national protest group or SNCC.

Question 4

Sit ins

Answer 4

African Americans sat down at segregated lunch counters and refused to leave until they were served