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Civil Rights in America

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joint project from Footnote and Gannett. African Americans’ long struggle for basic civil rights sparked the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and '60s. It is a movement that serves as a reminder that freedom is never free and continues to touch the lives of every American today.

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Martin King
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