The Civil Rights Act was a law that removed "seperate but equal" laws in the United States, and gave African-Americans the same basic rights as other Americans.
Answer: Although the "Separate but Equal" doctrine was eventually overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education (1954), the implementation of the changes this decision required was long, contentious, and sometimes violent (see Massive resistance and Southern Manifesto).
We are fortunate here in the UK, as we are not at immediate risk of genocide. However, discrimination has not ended, nor has the use of the language of hatred
