... . All this is a success because one of their goals was to have political power and equal opportunity. A second reason why the civil rights movement was politically more of a success than a failure is due to the fact that blacks are better off in the courts than they were. Now, blacks are allowed to serve on juries, and they are hardly ever discriminated in court as opposed ... companies who sought to do business with the Federal government. These two types of companies had to hire a certain percent of minorities. It was made to help minorities catch up with the whites in the business wor...

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... almost 100 cities. President Johnson then appointed a committee called The Kerner Commission to study the civil rights movement. They concluded the following: "We are moving toward two societies-one white and one black, separate and unequal." There is some truth to the Kerner Commission report, but on the whole the civil rights movement has been a success because blacks are better off now than they were before ... who sought to do business with the Federal government. These two types of companies had to hire a certain percent of minorities. It was made to help minorities catch up with t...

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... economic inequalities, like housing discrimination and equal employment. Now that the Civil Rights Movement was making progress, Martin Luther King Jr. hoped that the Chicago Freedom Movement would do the same. Media framing is one key in determining the success or failure of a social movement. King, aware of this attempted to use media frames to help the Civil Rights Movement succeed. This is shown in a summary by Steven Kasher, ... images and stories of violence. This period of the movement also included articles containing polarization, disparagement by numbers and focusing on King a...

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