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ABILITY TO CHANGE

a picture from the Nashville sit in in 1960 [|photo link]

The Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s is one example of America's ability to change its values and its establishments. By the end of the movement all races were legally equal in every way, yet many Americans remained reluctant to change their personal values. Although racial equality became legally enforced, many minorites were still socially and economically disadvantaged.

Although America is clearly able to change, Alexis De Tocqueville did not think so. He believed that blacks and whites would never see each other on the same level anywhere in the world, but they especially wouldn't in America

"I do not imagine that the white and black races will ever live in any country upon an equal footing. but I believe the difficulty to be still greater in the United States than elsewhere." -Alexis de Tocqueville, //Democracy in America.// 1836.

Alexis De Tocqueville [|photo link]

Racial equality did not happen over night, it took years and the efforts of many individuals and organizations to change the values of a country with an established system of Racism.

CORE logo [|photo link]

"There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late." -Hubert H. Humphrey

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