Clearly, the civil rights movement won their battle to end
segregation. However, I would not say that the movement really undermined the culture
of Jim Crow.
Instead, I would say that the movement got
enough support outside the South to push through laws that ended segregation even though
the South still wanted it.
There were lots of outside
elements that contributed. The two main ones I would mention
are
- Movement of blacks to the North in WWII.
There, they could vote and they became an important voting bloc in some parts of the
North. - Cold War -- made the US want to look good in the
eyes of the world and that meant that high government officials thought it was in our
best interests to end segregation so that black and brown people around the world would
like us.
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