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The Negative Effects Of The Civil Rights Movement

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The result of the civil rights movement had a great deal of negative effects on African Americans while bringing them together and strengthening their community towards making a change. A Raisin in the Sun expresses the struggles of a lower-class black family that tries to live in a white neighborhood and be accepted as middle-class. Secondly, government allowed segregation as long as it was separate but equal. This led to an act called the Plessy v. Ferguson case which was an act of rebellion by Homer Plessy. He sat in a white compartment on a train and got arrested for violating the law allowing segregation.
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