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What Was The Purpose Of The Civil Rights Movement During The 1960's

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The Civil Rights Movement is a very important period during the 1960s because the African-Americans struggled since the beginning of American history. From abuse they suffered like segregation, beatings, and slavery--there are all sorts of ways to torture African-Americans. Another way of torture would be the lack of education for Blacks. One historian author describes one of the reasons for the purpose of the movement as, “Nearly 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, African Americans in Southern states still inhabited an unequal world of segregation and various forms of oppression, including race inspired violence. Jim Crow Laws at the local and state levels segregates African Americans from classrooms, bathrooms, theaters and
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