Sentence examples for challenge segregation from inspiring English sources

Montgomery was not home to the first bus boycott any more than Colvin was the first person to challenge segregation.

CORE also helped organize the Freedom Rides, in which protesters risked their safety to challenge segregation in interstate transit.

After World War II, Georgians were forced to address the state's racial conflicts when African Americans began to challenge segregation.

They liken their strategy to that of the Freedom Riders, who 50 years ago rode buses to the American South to challenge segregation.

But the very spirit and independence of mind that had inspired Parks to challenge segregation started to pose a threat to Montgomery's black male hierarchy, which had started to believe, and then resent, their own spin.

He had participated in the Freedom Rides to challenge segregation in interstate transit and marched in Selma, Ala., in 1965, when state troopers assaulted protesters with clubs and tear gas.

The young men and women who challenged segregation as Freedom Riders in the spring and summer of 1961 are now senior citizens.

The American civil rights movement began challenging segregation in the 1950s, long before change came to South Africa.

And so, at the urging of some black leaders in town, Charlayne and Turner High School's valedictorian, Hamilton Holmes, challenged segregation at the University of Georgia by sending in applications for admission.

Starting with Abraham Lincoln and ending with "a dream rooted in the American dream," it challenged segregation but left intact almost everything else that white America held dear.

More than once they have been foiled in their attempts to find an unimpeachable citizen — a "good Negro" — around whom to build a public campaign challenging segregation.