Why Is Civil Rights Important Today?

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There are many thing going on around the world and one of the most important thing going on would be civil rights. Even in the past it still goes on today and some information that has happen in the past would be for obtain civil rights for black Americans. These moment have accomplish thing such as the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision of 1954, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Now a days it is about either police brutality or donald trump that many people fight.

Some current condition of civil right in our environment is that our school haven't been that great with the building. While most school from richer area have way better school than the other school. Some of the issues I

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