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Through nonviolent protest, the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s broke the pattern of public facilities' being segregated by “race” in the South and achieved the most important breakthrough in equal-rights legislation for African Americans since the Reconstruction period (1865–77).
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Q: Nearly all abolitionists, despite their militant language, rejected violence as a means of ending slavery. True or False?
A: True
