The civil rights movement was another event that began during the 1950s and traveled onIt was an integral time for people of color in the Americas at this time, as the movement was brought forward in order to reshape the government by destroying racial segregation. Some of the many laws in place, such as the Jim Crow laws, actively promoted racial segregation in public spaces. These laws were extensive, covering even places such as public parks, theatres, and restaurants that allowed them to deny people of color service based on their skin tone. Not only did people of color during this time suffer from the legal aspects of society while this was happening, they were also being subjected to terrible acts of violence such as lynching, beatings, mass arrests, and even murder. The laws in which discrimination was allowed weren’t gotten rid of until 1964 in which the Civil Rights Act was signed, which was furthered by the Voting Rights Act in 1965 and Fair Housing Act in 1986, allowing minorities to integrate properly into society. Despite the constant violence that minorities were subjected to during this time, the Civil Rights Movement declares its success because of their nonviolence use against violence.

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