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The Civil Rights Movement During The 1960's

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Martin Luther King once said in 1961 “human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle (Martin Luther King Jr., 1961).” These words were said in response to the ever-growing civil rights movement during the 1960s. This movement in the 1960s did not happen by coincidence; the civil rights movement during the Reconstruction Era and the events that took place shortly after the era prefigured the movement. The civil rights movement during the Reconstruction Era occurred during the 1860s, after the Civil War ended in the Unites States. The strife between the North and South regarding slavery was one of the main reasons why the Civil War was fought. The South believed
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