The Civil Rights Movement in the United States was a political, legal, and social struggle to gain full citizenship rights for Blacks and to gain racial equality. The goals of the civil rights movement was to end segregation, the system of laws and separating of blacks and whites that whites used to control blacks after slavery was abolished. During the civil rights movement, individuals and civil rights organizations fought to end segregation and discrimination with …
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…that I see the government. It also made me aware that most of the prison population is made up of mostly Blacks, Hispanics and people of third world nations, with very few whites. A flaw in the book is that it did not explain her escape. The reader was unaware of how she escaped and who helped her to escape. Overall, this book is very good and it should be read while studying black history.