The civil rights movements of the 1950s and 1960s did not do much to african-americans.

The Civil Rights movements of the 1950s and 1960s did not do much to help African-Americans.

- False.

Explanation:

The Civil Rights movements could be said that began with the assassination of Emmett Till in 1955, where a young Afro-American was attacked for two white men and they were liberated a month after, or the next boycott of buses in Montgomery, the struggle was clear: obtaining human rights for color people and finish the segregation in different forms.

The fight remained 14 years officially, where the Afro-American people and the Ku Klux Klan were the news, pitifully, It's considered ended with the murder of Martin Luther King, though the struggle can be identified in our days.

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