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rican Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s addressed the failures of Reconstruction by guaranteeing Civil Rights and voting rights at the federal level.
the goal of redeeming “the soul of America” through nonviolent resistance, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) was established in 1957 to coordinate the action of local protest groups throughout the South (King, “Beyond Vietnam,” 144). Under the leadership of Martin Luther King, Jr., the organization drew on the power and independence of black churches to support its activities. This conference is called,” King wrote, with fellow ministers C. K. Steele and Fred Shuttlesworth in January 1957, “because we have no moral choice, before God, but to delve deeper into the struggle—and to do so with greater reliance on non-violence and with greater unity, coordination, sharing and Christian understanding” (Papers 4:95).
The first schools in America were called Latin Grammar schools, as the communities consisted mainly of Puritans who only sought education so the younger generations could read the Bible.
