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Essential Question: Why do think the Civil Rights Movement is often called the "Second

Reconstruction?"

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The civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s is often called the Second Reconstruction. Its achievements were far-reaching. ... Like the first Reconstruction, however, the second failed to erase the economic inequalities that originated in slavery and were reinforced by decades of segregation.

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