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n and poverty as injustice, the civil rights movement gained traction and got results, in significant part as a result of King's efforts. Most noteworthy were the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which outlawed segregation in public accommodations, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which outlawed discrimination in voter registration and voting practices.

Despite the success in Montgomery in 1957 (indeed, despite the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, which mandated desegregation of public schools), the American South remained segregated as

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