I would say that Plessy v. Ferguson contributed to the Civil Rights movement. This was a court case that ruled that racial segregation in schools was allowed as long as the education for black students was equal to white students. Although this does not seem like a civil rights act, it later lead to Brown v. Board of Education, which ended racial segregation in schools all together.
They wet rages and put them over their mouths to keep the smoke from getting in their mouth and they draped wet blankets on their windows.
I personally feel that most of the working citizens in America, today only work so they get payed and they have something to look forward to after they have retired from working their whole adult lives. It's nice to be treated every once in a while when you've done something great. It's even a possibility that a good hand full of people might even quit working just because they don't have something to look forward to. Maybe if they got payed more and put it away for a rainy day they might not complain, but there is always a chance.
