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How the civil rights movement has contributed to anti-discrimination efforts and the establishment of hate crime legislation and policy?

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How is the civil rights movement and the women's rights movement similar?
Both were movements trying to get voting rights for races and sexes that weren't considered citizens at when the Constitution was written.
Did segregation and discrimination end after the civil rights movement?
No
What factors contributed to the growth of the civil right movement?
Mass Action was born out of the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1957 (instigated by Rosa Parks and the NAACP), which contributed to the growth. Out of the MBB, Martin Luther King arose as a prominent...
Name of the racist policies fought by civil rights movement?
The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965. They mandated de jure racial segregation in all public facilities, with a supposedly "separate but...
What is meant by civil rights and the civil rights movement?
Civil rights are those rights that are given to people by them being a citizen of a country/state/county/city. The civil rights movement in the US was a collective fight of a group of people to...