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The Movement Begins. ..



After World War II, African Americans and other civil rights supporters challenged segregation in the United States. Their efforts were vigorously opposed by Southern segregationists, but the federal government began to take a firmer stand for civil rights.

The civil rights movement had been building for a long time. Since 1909, the NAACP had supported court cases intended to overturn segregation. Over the years, the NAACP achieved some victories. In 1935, for example, the Supreme Court ruled in Norris v. Alabama that Alabama's exclusion of African Americans from juries violated their right to equal protection under the law.

The civil rights movement was a worldwide political movement for equality before the law occurring between approximately 1950 and 1980.