Mecca was an important city for Arabs before Islam because Mecca was an important trading city and crossroads for travelers and tradable goods. There are historical accounts of goods being traded through Mecca from Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and other parts of Asia. Also Mecca was an important place for the camel trade and also for providing support for traders seeking safe passage through the Arabian Peninsula.
The limitations on 1983 actions that the US Supreme Court has put was that they can only be brought for deliberate acts.
Birmingham: demonstrations, boycotts, and sit-ins. All these activities integrated the so-called Birmingham Campaign, as it was one of the most segregated cities in the US.
Washington D.C. : Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech delivered during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963 in front of 250,000 supporters of the Civil Rights Movement. It constituted a direct claim for the end of racism
Selma: police attacked peaceful marchers outside this city. The march which was peaceful in the beginning is nowadays known as the Bloody Sunday.
Watts: terrible riots took place here in 1965. A roadside incident escalated to a conflict with police and ended up causing six days of unrest.
Little Rock: students tried to integrate a school. This conflict required the involvement of the Supreme Court that issued the historic Brown v. Board of Education decision that declared segregated schools to be unconstitutional.
Montgomery: Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in the bus in 1956 and it gave rise to the Montgomery bus boycott.
