OVERCOMING RACISM: Blacks in America
by Corinne Peters

1. Rosa Parks’ interaction with the bus driver as she refuses to relinquish her seat to a white man.
   
2. The signing of the Voting Rights Act in 1965
   
3. Civil protest marches with Martin Luther King Jr., Ralph Abernathy, John White and others
   
4. Ten black college students
   
5. Jackie Robinson integrating major league baseball
   
6. Thurgood Marshall addressing the Supreme Court in Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka.
   
7. The intertwining of the importance of Church and the American republic as represented by the Cross and Flag
   
8. The triumph over racism, a black female priest celebrating Holy Communion

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