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Although the civil rights movement ultimately succeeded, many lives were harmed in the process. Many young people who began their political activism during this time transferred their commitment to social justice to other causes, including protests against the Vietnam War in the late 1960s and '70s.
African-American Civil Rights Movement. The African-American Civil Rights Movement was an ongoing fight for racial equality that took place for over 100 years after the Civil War. Leaders such as Martin Luther King, Jr., Booker T. Washington, and Rosa Parks paved the way for non-violent protests which led to changes in the law. When most people talk about the Civil Rights Movement they are talking about the protests in the 1950s and 1960s that led to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Background.