1. Civil Rights Movement
They pursued their goals through legal means, negotiations, petitions, and nonviolent protest demonstrations. The civil rights movement centered on the American South, where the African American population was concentrated and where racial inequality in education, economic opportunity, and the political and legal processes was most obvious. ... After a series of legal cases in the late 1960s, the federal courts finally dismantled segregated schools by requiring school districts to apply plans, such as school-district rezoning, that would bring black and white school children and f...
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