Sentence examples for fight segregation from inspiring English sources

You can't fight segregation, say, by an appeal to tradition; segregation was an entrenched American tradition.

Burke's views suggested to Viereck that conservatives could simultaneously fight segregation and protect the moderate reforms of the New Deal, while combatting the spread of Communism abroad.

At the awards ceremony, he recalled that he had "one compelling ambition". "I wanted to fight segregation on the front lines," he said.

Mr. Foster, who has largely retired from political life and now is a pastor at Christ Church in the Bronx, said he was drawn to politics as a way to fight segregation when he was growing up in Alabama.

During the civil rights movement, my parents sat in at white-only lunch counters in Richmond, Virginia to fight segregation and fight for equality and inclusion in American life 365 days and 12 months of the year.

Part of the show's good-hearted charm lies in seeing how Tracy, from her first experience of sexy black dancing in the school gym, determines to fight segregation on Baltimore's daytime TV.

Fighting segregation in hotels, restaurants and theatres, she filed lawsuits and made public condemnations.

The article also misspelled the surname of the director of Shatil, a coalition of groups that fights segregation.

He campaigned to clean up the slums around the Chicago meatpacking district and fought segregation and abuses by banks.

"If Eisenhower had fought the war like he fought segregation, we'd probably be speaking German right now," said Oliver Hill, 97, a lawyer in the Brown case.

[A protest rally Sept. 8 attracted about 150 ,including civil rights figures like the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, who fought segregation a half-century ago.