The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and \'60s is now remembered as a distant, sepia-toned campaign, whose achievements and idealism were soon eclipsed by angry, confrontational Black Power activists.
This political explosion initially took the form of the Black Power Movement, which, though conventionally adjudged a failure, in fact laid.
However, far From marking the end of an era, as is commonly thought, the 1965 Voting Rights Act wrested open a dam holding back radical political impulses.
The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and \'60s is now remembered as a distant, sepia-toned campaign, whose achievements and idealism were soon eclipsed by angry, confrontational Black Power activists