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Civil Rights Movement

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The Civil Rights Movement

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Beyond the Big Names of the Civil Rights Movement

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Protests and the Civil Rights Movement | History

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Civil Rights Movement: The Fight for Equality

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Civil Rights Movement March on Washington

The civil rights movement was a decades-long movement with the goal of securing legal rights for African Americans that other Americans already held. With roots starting in the Reconstruction era during the late 19th century, the movement resulted in the largest legislative impacts after the direct actions and grassroots protests organized from the mid-1950s until 1968. Encompassing strategies, various groups, and organized social movements to accomplish the goals of ending legalized racial segregation and discrimination in the United States, the movement, using major nonviolent campaigns, eventually secured new recognition in federal law and federal protection of all Americans.
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