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The civil rights movement in itself has been a struggle for the African-American race. This fight to obtain natural human rights has begun much longer than there have been court cases to fight them. It began when this group of people were treated as if they were objects and not the humans they truly were. They went through 400 years of oppression not receiving the basic rights any citizen in America should be entitled to. They were beaten, traded, used, and utterly disrespected in many fields. The main focus to keep them in this state of oppression though was the use of education. Ignorance is bliss, some would say, and this is how America oppressed its new visitors. They oppressed African-Americans first by trying to keep them from any knowledge that was out there in the world. After the African-Americans were freed they were then held down by another form of disrespect. They were not allowed to get the same form of education as those who were Caucasian. This is why the case of......

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