Gayle, in November 1956, handing NAACP lawyers a major victory ... the president invoked a rallying cry of the civil rights movement. An SCLC staffer watching the speech with Reverend Martin ...
The 1954 Brown v Topeka case was an important turning point in the civil rights movement, as it showed that the Supreme Court was prepared to take action to end segregation in the USA. In 1865 ...