... the other hand, while whites were enjoying their time happily soul-searching, blacks were searching for justice and equality. The fight for equality hadn't been recognized as a critical issue until John F. Kennedy's election to office in 1960, when he freed Martin Luther King, a major influential figure in civil rights. The Civil Rights movement of the 1960's looked for the disestablishment of ... of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, both being huge achievements for blacks. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 desegregated public places and banned employment discri...

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