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[2018]
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"In World War II, black Americans fought side by side with white Americans to preserve freedom and democracy. But they came home to a world in which blacks were separate but unequal. The 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education eliminated segregated schools in theory, but in reality Jim Crow still ruled the South. The civil rights movement began in the 1950s, gathered steam with the sit-ins and marches of the 1960s, and led...
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[2018]
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"The environmental movement of the 1960s arose out of Rachel Carson's book, SILENT SPRING. The best-selling book brought to public awareness the destruction of the environment by chemicals such as DDT. Other environmental problems -- among them, water pollution, air pollution, and garbage spewing out into city streets -- stirred people into action as well. Earth Day 1970 was the first mass protest. Since then many improvements have been made to the...
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[2018]
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"Women worked in the factories in World War II. They volunteered and worked in the military in World War II. When given the opportunity, women did everything men did. But when the war ended, they were told to go home and keep house. And they did. But by the 1960s, energized by the civil rights movement and angered by the limitations still placed on them, women decided that enough was enough. They had a right to work. They had a right to buy their...
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