The Unites States of America is a country that partook in the segregation of blacks and whites. The Civil Rights movement was an unprecedented historical event with a purpose to ameliorate the conditions of black persons in the United States of America. The Civil Rights movement also worked to change the way minorities, especially black persons, are viewed. Since the abolition of slavery, into the late 1960’s, black persons were fighting ,for which they had not been accommodated for. Segregation is the policy or practice of separating people of different races, classes, or ethnic groups, and was the main problem of those times. Segregation effected how minorities were treated in schools, housing and public or commercial facilities, inevitably enforcing discrimination.
There were two forms of segregation that occurred in America; de jure and de facto segregation.(nps.gov) De jure segregation was segregation that was being enforced by laws,and this type of segregation was......
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