Sentence examples for challenging segregation from inspiring English sources

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

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.

He returned to Virginia after the war, moved south to Emporia, Va., and became the NAACP's lead lawyer in the state challenging segregation.

This is a helpful quality to have in a city known mainly for its municipal controversies -- a school system that seems to teeter ever on the brink of insolvency, and a divisive lawsuit challenging segregation in housing and education.

In Delaware, the state government was appealing a lower court order to integrate schools, and in the District of Columbia, black parents were challenging segregation in public schools operating under federal jurisdiction.

He was, Lewis writes, a "visionary," while White was merely a "C.E.O. with a policy," determined to rein in The Crisis and erect a bureaucratic foundation that could carry on lobbying campaigns in Congress and legal ones in the courts challenging segregation.

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

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.

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.