Civil Rights Movement, The. ... The Civil Rights Movement was an era dedicated to activism for equal rights and treatment of African Americans in the United States. During this period, people rallied for social, legal, political and cultural changes to prohibit discrimination and end segregation.
Many important events involving discrimination against African Americans proceeded the era known as the Civil Rights Movement. The importation and enslavement of Africans marked the beginning of the black experience in America.
One of the main ways in which each main character represents another facet of Hugo’s view is that each character comes from very different backgrounds, meaning Hugo is able to use multiple "lenses".
