1. The Civil Rights Movement
The Civil Rights Movement The Civil Rights Movement in the United States was a political, legal, and social struggle by black Americans to gain full citizenship rights and to achieve racial equality. ... The 14th amendment granted them equal protection under the law. ... This coined the phrase "Separate but equal" and set the way of life for almost the next sixty years. ... He went on to say that the practice of cross-town bussing and "Separate, but equal" caused psychological damage leading black people to feel they were inferior. ... After the passage of the Voting Rights act of 1965...
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