From the beginning, America, a nation of immigrants, welcomed
people desiring freedom and a new start. However, the coming together of
different races and ethnic groups created some (36)
Black people were the only" immigrants" who didn’t
choose to come to America. For hundreds of years, Africans were taken from their
homes to be slaves in the New World. The end of the Civil War (37)
brought freedom to the slaves in 1865, but blacks still had a lower
position in the society. The Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s helped
black people (38) many of the rights promised in the
Constitution. In 1955, Rosa Parks (39) to give up her seat
on a bus for a white man. Her courage (40) a bus boycott in
Montgomery, Alabama, that ended (41) on city buses. Martin
Luther King Jr. encouraged black people to use (42) means to
achieve their goals of equal (43) . Finally, Congress passed
the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to stop discrimination in all public
places. (44) . The laws have changed, but
some people remain prejudiced. Tensions sometimes erupt in violence.
(45) . Multicultural America has numerous minority groups
that argue for equal treatment. (46) .
Minority groups now have equal opportunities in many areas of education,
employment and housing. Interracial marriages are becoming more accepted.
Children of different races, with their parents, are learning to play together
and work together.
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In spite of the gains of the Civil Rights Movement, racial p......