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How did the Supreme Court play a role in civil rights during the 1960s and 1970s?

How did the Civil Rights Movement inspire other minority groups in U.S. society?

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The Supreme Court affected civil rights by handing down a number of decisions that paved the way for the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. The Court's decisions helped create an atmosphere in which African Americans were optimistic about their chances of winning equal rights.The Court's decisions were aimed at breaking down the idea (laid out in Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896) that racially segregated institutions could be constitutional so long as they were equal. In a series of rulings having to do with educational institutions (starting with graduate schools and ending with K-12 schools) the Court said that separate schools for the races were inherently unequal. This process culminated in the case of Brown v. Board of Education in 1954.
By handing down decisions like these, the Court set out the idea that segregation in schools (and therefore, presumably in other areas) was unconsitutional. This helped blacks feel that a social movement could work (as it did) to gain them equal rights before the law).

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The African American Civil Rights Movement inspired other reform movements by minority groups because of its success. Scholars of social movements tell us that social movements arise when a group of people which has been oppressed to some degree starts to have hope that its lot can be changed. During the 1950s and 1960s, the Civil Rights Movement succeeded in improving the situation of African Americans. When other minority groups (Chicanos and Native Americans in particular) saw this success, they started to think that they too might be able to improve their situation. In this way, the successes of the movement for African American rights inspired other groups to try for more rights as well.

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