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Inevitable Change

Inevitable Change
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After nearly a decade of nonviolent protests and marches, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Act of 1965. These laws guaranteed basic civil rights for all Americans regardless of race. The Civil Rights Movement was at a peak from 1955-1965. From the Montgomery bus boycott to the student-led-sit-ins of the 1960’s to the huge March on Washington, African Americans pressed the government to give them the rights that should have been theirs since birth. The Civil Rights Movement was an inevitable part of American history. Inferior public institutions and schools and denial of basic rights such as voting were the fuel that propelled this Movement forward.
Segregation meant inherently unequal (and inadequate) educational and other public facilities for blacks. In a landmark case, Brown V. Board of Topeka Kansas, the Supreme Court declared that separate educational facilities were inherently unequal and therefore u...

Posted by: Leonard Herriman

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