Anti
-The desegregation of Boston public schools 1974-1988 was a period in which the Boston Public Schools were under court control to desegregate through a system of busing students.
-The integration plan aroused fierce criticism among some Boston residents. Of the 100,00 enrolled in Boston school districts, attendance fell from 60,000 to 40,000 during these years.
-Black teenagers in Roxbury threw rocks at auto mechanic Richard Poleet's car and caused him to crash. The youths dragged him out and crushed his skull with nearby paving stones. When police arrived, the man surrounded by a crowd of 100 chanting "Let him die" while lying in a coma from which he never recovered.
-During the roughly 13 years of MLK's leadership of the American Civil Rights movement, African Americans achieved more genuine progress toward racial equality in American than the pervious 350 years.
-MLK was one of the biggest leading causes for these things to happen and without his effort these would have been delayed decades. It is because MLK made such big progress that he was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. He was assassinated by fugitive and felon James Earl Ray on April 4, 1968.
-Massive Resistance was a group of laws adopted in 1956 by Virginia's state government to block the desegregation of public schools mandated by the U.S. Supreme Court in its 1954
Pro
-Affirmative Action is the practice or policy of favoring individuals belonging to groups known to have been discriminated against previously.
-The children of those who attended integrated schools had higher test scores and were more likely to attend college.
-Civil Rights Act of 1964
-is a landmark civil rights and labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
-Voting Rights Act of 1965
-Signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote as guaranteed under the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
-Fair Housing Act:1968
-It banned discrimination over the sale, rental, or and financing of housing based on sex, religion, national origin, or race.
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