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Final Essay: U.S. History How would you feel if when you went to school each day you were settling for less because you didn’t have a choice, or when you wanted to get a drink of water you had to find a special lower quality fountain because you weren’t good enough to use the normal nice fountains that the whites got to use. There were many causes and effects for the civil rights movement of the 50’s and 60’s, but I am going to focus on a few main points for each. One of the main reasons African-Americans started the civil rights movement was to show that they were not different than anyone else, and that they deserved the same rights and liberties as any one American. This is where the resistance began. Afro-American students began to realize how to harness the small power they had. They began holding demonstrations and marches which voiced their conviction s. Once this power began to show through the youth of the Afro-American culture, problems began. As I noted in my introduction, blacks had to settle for less in more ways than one. One of those ways though, was through drinking fountains. Though a small incon