1. Civil Rights
The civil rights movement actually started with legal battles before moving into the streets of American cities. The Supreme Court ordered the desegregation of schools with "all deliberate speed" and overturned it's former "separate but equal" policy that had for so long been the law of the land. This led to the tokenism that MLK decried, and it also led to the realization that there wouldn't be equal rights gained through the courts alone, they had to take their struggle to the streets. ... Slowly but surely the small pocket of "dissidents" turned into a nationwide movement that r...
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