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Forum: Session 13 - Civil Rights in the 1950s

Forum: Session 13 - Civil Rights in the 1950s

Q Did the Civil Rights Movement see more successes or setbacks during the 1950s? Give a couple of examples to support your position.

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During 1950s, the discrimination against the black people reached peak and black people all over America decided to protest cumulatively against this. The civil rights movement was a step against the new Jim Crow laws that bound black people to slavery even after slavery was abolished. One of the greatest successes of the civil rights movement was “Public services in District of Columbia, Navy yards, and Veterans hospitals were desegregated” (Session 13 Lecture, 2021).