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The civil rights movement is against segregation, the system of laws and customs separating blacks and whites that whites use to control blacks since slavery was forbidden in the 1860s. During this civil rights movement, individuals and civil rights groups have c ....

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.... of Reconstruction in 1877. During Reconstruction, republican governments in the Southern states were run by blacks, Northerners, and some Southerners. The Reconstruction governments had passed laws to help blacks get economic and political opportunities. By 1877 the Democratic Party had gained control of government in the Southern states, and these Southern Democrats took away black advances and rights made during Reconstruction. They passed local and state laws that made certain places "For Whites Only" and others for "Colored." Blacks had separate schools, transportation, restaurants, and parks, many of which were dumpy, and poorly put together. Ove ....