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Compare And Contrast The Civil Rights Movement And The Blm Movement

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The Civil Rights Movement and the BLM movement are driven by a desire to end racism and inequality. During the Civil Rights movement, activists fought for the end of segregation, voter suppression, and other forms of discrimination that were deep in American society. Similarly, BLM activists today are fighting against the disproportionate number of police killings of Black Americans, the mass incarceration of Black people, and the ongoing effects of historical racism on social and economic outcomes.The Civil Rights Movement and the BLM movement share a common goal: to create a more just and equal society while the BLM movement has brought more attention to issues of police brutality and racism, there have been few concrete policy changes
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