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Why did civil rights movements' prospects appear dim at the start of the 1950s?

- President Truman had been unsuccessful in rolling back Jim Crow laws.

- President Eisenhower was an active supporter of segregation in the South.

- Segregation was mandated by law throughout the United States.

- Northern cities had a system of de facto segregation.

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- President Truman had been unsuccessful in rolling back Jim Crow laws.
- Northern cities had a system of de facto segregation.
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