The African-American Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, like the Great Awakening and Progressive Era before it, sought to revolutionize the very makeup of American society. African-American prejudice and discrimination, caused by the continuation of Jim Crow Laws, de facto segregation, and de jure segregation, sparked nationwide discontent as numerous individuals, with equally numerous ethnic, religious, and cultural backgrounds, rose to demand true and undisputed equality. With African-American…
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