American civil rights movement, mass protest against racial segregation and ... the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s broke the pattern of public ... against their enslavement (see slave rebellions), African Americans and other ... Despite this repression, a growing number of Black Americans freed themselves from
The revolutionary war with Britian was really fought to keep the state's rights from being torn away. In this sense the Articles of Confederation were a proper document because they gave practically no power to a central government.
