There are many lessons to be learned from the civil rights. America would not be the way it is if it was not for the civil rights movement. Some lessons that I learned though throughout this part of our history is how one racial problem can lead to violence, hatred, and discrimination throughout the whole nation. It showed me how America really is and how everyone has their own perspectives towards issues, and those perspectives can lead to thousands of innocent people being murdered just for their color of their skin and how people can just watch others being killed right in front of them, and be humiliated just for standing up for themselves and fighting for their freedom.
Some issues that America still struggles with today when it comes to equity and equality is that from this day on people still get discriminated by other people just for their race. That shows that you can never get rid of the past, because throughout the world some people will always disagree with others and try to single themselves out of of other people because of racial or any other issues.
Also some of the events that happened during the civil rights are connected to the present, because from this day some people still disagree and some are still in white supremacists groups who still believe in the racial issues of the past. Another way it is connected is through Institutional Racism, for example in prisons everyone is separated with their own races because each group has the mindset that they are the better race and have more power, so it leads into chaos sometimes because that mindset can get deep into someone's head and lead them into doing something that will cause a big problem.
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