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The Civil Rights Movement In The 1950's

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The civil rights movement was a movement for equality that had started in the late 1950s. It was a break through racial segregation. African Americans were not allowed to go to school, restaurants, buses, and facilities as the white Americans. When the United States first began its country, majority of blacks weren’t citizens which change several things. It dealt with three amendments to the constitution, the 13th amendment which was abolish slavery. The other one was the 14th amendment that granted citizenship to former slaves. Lastly, the 15th that gave blacks the same voting rights as whites. In addition the U.S. Supreme Court allowed “separation but equal”, the case of Plessy v. Ferguson (1896). During the early 1950s the lawyers for the
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