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It would depend on which civil rights movement you are referring to. Many counties have had much turmoil over civil rights.
There are many people involved in the US civil rights movement. As for one, there is Jessee Jackson from Chicago, Illinois.
It varies by state.
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Simply, because many people in Northern Ireland were being denied their civil rights, and so they and others went to support a movement that was trying to get them.
The 1957 Civil Rights Act was one of the first pieces of civil rights legislation signed in the United States under President Eisenhower. The goal of this act was to allow and ensure the voting rights of all American citizens. The passing of the 1957 Civil Rights Act put an end to the many discriminatory practices taking place during voter registration.
Not at all. Many people don't know that the civil war was fought for more than one reason. - Abolishment of slavery - Civil Rights - Rights of the people, and land for landowners. No, without the civil war, our economy and civil leadership wouldn't be what it is today.
The Civil Rights Movement was a movement by the people, not a law to be passed by congress. A result of the Civil Rights Movement was the consideration of many bills passed by congress into law. Among them were the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968.
That many people in the South opposed granting civil rights to African Americans
The term for equal rights sought by Blacks after the Civil War was civil rights. After the Civil War, slavery was abolished, but they did not have any rights that other people had. They could not vote, go to the same schools or churches as whites, could not eat in many restaurants or enjoy entertainment venues that white people attended.
Brown v. Board of Education was decided in 1954, while the Civil Rights Act was signed into law in 1964. Therefore, there were approximately 10 years separating the two events.