The Accomplishments Of The Civil Rights Movement

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There were a lot of accomplishments that came from the Civil Rights Movement. The Civil Rights Movement gave African Americans the rights that the White Americans had. Some of those rights were the right to vote, the right to work, live and go to school with the white race, the right to access public facilities. With the Civil Rights Movement, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, and other activist came together and fought for equality among African American as well as women. The NAACP was an organization that became a stepping stone for civil rights. You had the Montgomery Bus Boycott, that started with Rosa Parks not giving up her seat on the bus to a white woman. Later, African Americans were granted the right to sit wherever the wanted to sit. The