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The Civil Rights Movement, undoubtedly, initiated the abolishment of most forms of legal discrimination. ... The Movement's crowning legislative achievement was the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which banned discrimination in places of public accommodation, enforced the Constitutional right to vote, established a Commission on Equal Employment Opportunity, and prevented discrimination in federally assisted programs. ... The Civil Rights Movement changed that. ... Media stereotypes and the residuum of pre-civil rights overt racism have plagued society's thinking. ... The Civil Rights Act o...
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