The Civil Rights Movement And Progression

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Progression is what African Americans has looked for since slavery times and progression is what we’ve gotten. Yet, we have overcame a plethora of heartaches and being treated badly for what we have thought if it was another year and not 2015. Taking a look back into the Civil Rights Movement and how history is repeating itself now with the BlackLivesMatter movement, as you read the history books about the Civil Rights Movement and you’ll see the base of how blacks and whites couldn’t use the same bathrooms and not drink from the same water fountain but it was so much more than that my culture was being ripped and thrown away so much to the point we didn’t know who we were as a community this is why we fought for our rights I believe we would

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