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  1. The civil-rights movement is a general term
  2. for efforts by American black people to 
  3. improve their status in society after 
  4. World War II. Following their significant
  5. contribution to the national effort in 
  6. wartime, they began a sustained campaign for
  7. full civil rights which challenged racial 
  8. discrimination. 
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  10. Subject by: Simone Bennett
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