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The Civil Rights Movement centered on the south because this was the place of some of the most egregious Jim Crow policies as well as violence, with the Ku Klux Klan often deeply entrenched in the legal justice system. In addition, the denial of service to blacks in public places or institutions as well as the denial of their right to vote by intimidation made it a good place to start.
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Was the South the only part of the US that was involved in the Civil Rights Movement?
Hardly. The South was the part of the US that most resisted the Civil Rights Movement, although discrimination was common in other parts of the country
What is a role that media played in the civil rights movement?
Helped show the whole world the Racial chaos in the south.
Which political party was on the side of the civil rights movement?
Republicans and Northern Democrats.AnswerI beg your pardon. .AnswerRather than being split along party lines, the Civil Rights movement tended to split the country along North-South lines. Northern politicians tended to be either pro-Civil Rights, or neutral. Southern politicians tended to be anti-Civil Rights, or rarely, neutral.
What were some of the problems of the South that the civil rights movement helped change?
Jim Crow laws and police-enforced segregation
What response did the first sit-in of the civil rights movement at a woolworth's lunch counter in 1960 provoke throughout the south?
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