Sentence examples similar to defeating segregation from inspiring English sources
The freedom riders returned today, 40 years after being ridiculed, arrested and sometimes beaten in their campaign to defeat segregation.
For instance, 61 years after it helped defeat segregation in the supreme court, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People NAACPP) has filed suit in Halifax County, North Carolina.
It took more than people pouring into the streets and college quads to stop the war in Vietnam and defeat segregation.
In 1933, Nathan Margold, a young Harvard law graduate, had written a report for the N.A.A.C.P. that concluded that the best way to defeat segregation was not to challenge the segregation law itself but to show a violation of the equal rights promised to all citizens under the Constitution.
This organization successfully defeated segregation in New York and served as a model for later rights organizations, including the National Equal Rights League and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People NAACPP).
If the romanticism of Mitchell's novel was a beautiful, literary reconciliation with defeat, segregation could be considered its ugly, legal twin.
Anderson's argument entails that Vall's form of black nationalism is self-defeating: segregation itself works to prevent the white support for black communities and institutions for which such nationalism calls.
Neither will they explain the charter school strategy of increasing segregation in order to defeat the legacies of segregation.
In 1954, he returned to South Africa to join the struggle against apartheid, the system of racial segregation put in place after the National Party defeated Mr. Smuts's government in 1948.
Women have overcome gender segregation.
