50s USA Civil Rights During the fifties, being born black meant being born condemned to an ancestral system of discrimination, originated four centuries ago with the slave trade from Africa and then perpetuated in the cotton plantations. The black...
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50s USA Civil Rights During the fifties, being born black meant being born condemned to an ancestral system of discrimination, originated four centuries ago with the slave trade from Africa and then perpetuated in the cotton plantations. The black population carried out a series of protests, mobilizations and campaigns to end racial discrimination. The Civil Rights it was a long, and mainly non- violent, struggle to extend full access to civil rights and equality before the law to groups that do not have them, especially black citizens. The 1st December Rosa Parks (the "mother of the Civil Rights Movement") refused to get out of her seat on a public bus to leave it to a white passenger. Rosa was arrested, tried and sentenced for disorderly conduct and for violating a local law. Martin Luther King led an effective boycott that ended with the discrimination suffered by black people on Montgomery buses, was arrested and imprisoned, his home was destroyed and received innumerable death thr
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