The Civil Rights Movement
When did the Civil Rights movement start to surface? What were the foundations of the
Civil Rights movement? What were the successes and failures of a movement attempting to
affect social change in the 1950's and 1960's America. The intent of this research is to describe
the principal tenants of the Civil Rights movement, its success and failures, and to provide the
foundation it was built upon.
The war brought many changes during the 1940's, especially for the African-American
population. Although the military remained segregated for 1 million blacks in uniform, Blacks
made up 16 percent of the total armed forces, higher than their proportion (10 percent) of the
population as a whole (Boyer 13). As black population grew, so did the social tensions that
ended in protests and violence. Riots had broken out in Detroit, when rumors had it; whites had pushed a black woman and her baby into a lake in a city park. The result left twenty-five......

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Title: Civil Rights
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Approximate Pages: 6 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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