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Can you explain a bit about the history of the American civil rights movement?
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The American civil rights movement is a term used to describe the struggle for racial equality in the United States that dates back to the 1800s. Initially, it was focused on abolishing the enslavement of African Americans, however the struggle extended to include women's rights, LGBT rights, and other movements such as Native American rights and the immigrant rights movement. Over the years, it has been a long, hard-fought struggle for African Americans and other underrepresented people to gain basic civil rights and liberties. The civil rights movement gained steam in the 1950s and 1960s, with the Supreme Court desegregation ruling in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955, the March on Washington in 1963, and the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964 and the Voting Rights Act in 1965, among other movements and milestones. In recent years, the civil rights movement has largely shifted to issues of racial inequality within the criminal justice system, immigration, and education.