Movements for civil rights in the United States include noted legislation and organized efforts to abolish public and private acts of racial discrimination against African Americans and other disadvantaged groups between 1954 and 1968, particularly in the southern United States.
There are about three big ones that come off the top of my head.
- It overruled the Plessy v. Ferguson case, which made Jim Crow and Segregation legal with its famous “separate but equal” ruling.
- It emboldened the Civil Rights movement, as this major victory gave organizations like the NAACP and CORE a legal platform to combat racism.
- It redefined the values of America, replacing Segregation with Integration.
<span>The Republicans rapidly gained supporters in the North, and in 1856 their first presidential candidate, John C. Fremont, won 11 of the 16 Northern states. By 1860, the majority of the Southern slave states were publicly threatening secession if the Republicans won the presidency. In November 1860, Republican Abraham Lincoln was elected president over a divided Democratic Party, and six weeks later South Carolina formally seceded from the Union. Within six more weeks, five other Southern states had followed South Carolina’s lead, and in April 1861 the Civil War began when Confederate shore batteries under General P.G.T. Beauregard opened fire on Fort Sumter in South Carolina’s Charleston Bay.</span>
Book written by Thomas More that describes an ideal society where there were no rich or poor was A. Utopia
I think it would be better than ever if it wasent for the TVA
