"The civil rights movement achieved a great deal in the 1950s and 1960s." Do sources A to F prove that this interpretation is correct?

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“The civil rights movement achieved a great deal in the 1950s and 1960s.”

Do sources A to F prove that this interpretation is correct? “

 

  The American Civil Rights Movement is one of the most momentous events in the history of the American Republic. It dates from the Brown vs. Topeka Supreme Court desegregation decision (1954) to the passage of the Voting Rights Act (1965), but of course the struggle began long before that and continues today. The hope of real freedom for the emancipated slaves after the Civil War was quashed by racist state governments after the withdrawal of Federal troops in the 1870s. The gains achieved by blacks are gradually eroded by racist Jim Crow legislation and extra legal terror fomented by the Klu Klux Klan. Lynchings and mob violence throughout the South cowed blacks into submission and prevented them from voting. The economic deprivation and terror caused a small numbers of blacks to migrate north and after World War I (1914-18) this migration increased significantly. President Truman prepared the groundwork for the Civil Rights movement when he desegregated the military (1948) and took other steps, which led to the landmark Supreme Court Brown decision. Brown Although the Brown decision did not immediately desegregate Southern schools, it did help foster a decade of non-violent protests and marches, often carried out by teenagers and youths. These ranged from the 1955-1956 Montgomery bus boycott to the student-led sit-ins and Freedom Rides of the 1960s. These protests were finalized by a massive March on Washington (1963). The Civil Rights Act (1964), which provided a range of legal protections including access to public accommodations. The Voting Rights Act (1965) was the capstone of the movement, guaranteeing access to the voting booth and in the process fundamentally changing America.

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  In the mid 1950s racial oppression in the southern states was more than apparent, but black African Americans refused to accept being second-class citizens. The civil rights movement succeeded in abolishing the Jim Crow laws, which segregated blacks from whites in nearly all aspects of life. Source A shows the number of black students allowed to enter schools, which consisted of white only children between 1956-1962. It has been taken from a British textbook published in 1984: this means you should assume the content to be researched and reliable. By looking at the information we can immediately see that ...

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