According to Sarah Jackson, the civil rights movements of the 1950s and 1960s made strategic decisions to center educated, cisgender Black men in racial justice struggles, calculating that they would be most likely to be seen as worthy of rights. Jackson identifies this strategy as a form of_____.

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This strategy is identified as "respectability politics," which involves marginalized groups attempting to present themselves in ways they believe will be more acceptable to the mainstream society, in this case, by centering educated, cisgender Black men in their movements.

According to Sarah Jackson, the Civil Rights Movements of the 1950s