Title: Was the Civil Rights Movement Successful? - GCSE History - Marked by Teachers.com
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Was the Civil Rights Movement Successful?
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Was the Civil Rights Movement Successful? The Civil Rights Movement began in the 1950's aiming to win equality of treatment for black and whites. It was quite successful in that desegregation was forbidden, and that blacks were allowed to vote. However the success was limited, as many racist attitudes and poverty still existed. In the 1950's and early 1960's discrimination, prejudice and segregation existed around America. Blacks were discriminated for the colour of their skin. Because of this White people were prejudice against Blacks, and segregation was formed. Nearly everything was segregated, benches, drinking fountains, but a major segregation law was the segregation of schools. Peaceful protests took place in school lunch halls, with sit-ins, where black students would sit at 'white only' lunch counters. Oliver Brown sued his state for not letting his black daughter into a white school.