Nixon intended that her arrest be a test case to allow Montgomery's black citizens to challenge segregation on the city's public buses.

This led to a wider federal lawsuit that challenged segregation in general.

He challenged segregation in Dayton before the civil rights movement gained attention nationally.

While a number of boycotters had wanted to challenge segregation directly, the majority backed the municipal compromise.

Fisher was willing to delay her legal career in order to challenge segregation.

"People will challenge racial segregation and will get relief."

In the short term the abrupt dismissal of the case forced by Gaines' disappearance was a setback for all efforts to legally challenge segregation.

The order was a victory for the Freedom Riders, who suspended further plans to challenge racial segregation on buses and bus terminals.

Marshall, too, said no - for more than a decade - to petitioners who asked him to challenge public-school segregation in the South.

Long before white civil rights workers arrived, Rust College Students, began to challenge segregation of public accommodations.