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Civil Rights Movement and Today's Multi-faceted Struggles

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The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s arose from African Americans' and other people of color's need and desire for equality and freedom. Nearly a century after slavery was ended, segregation, prejudice, disenfranchisement, and racially motivated violence pervaded many parts of black people's lives, both personal and structural.  At the municipal and state levels, "Jim Crow" laws kept African Americans out of classrooms and bathrooms, theaters and train cars, juries and legislatures. Today, especially in parts of Europe, Australia and the US, a new segregation has evolved with political undertones - the vaxxed against the unvaccinated, the Right against the Left, the religious against non-religious, illegal migration and voting rights and so on. For every group, the new activism has emerged from an Inglorious past. If Martin Luther King Jr and his civil rights movement were to be alive today, they will surely be on the receiving end this ti