In the 1950s,Jim Crow laws in many parts of the United States created a kind of "caste system" of legal inequality.White Americans and black Americans had to live by different and inherently unfair rules,and members of the civil rights movement held protests,sit-ins,and marches to oppose this legal inequality that eventually resulted in the Civil Rights Act,which eliminated much of the legal inequality in the country.This is an example of a

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This is an example of a social movement, as it involved a group of individuals coming together to actively oppose and work towards changing social and legal norms that were unfair and discriminatory.

In the 1950s,Jim Crow Laws in Many Parts of the United