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The two main issues addressed by the southern Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s were ending the "Jim Crow" system of segregation and winning the right to vote for Blacks (and Latinos, Native-Americans, Asians, and others) in the South and elsewhere.But the Freedom Movement of the 1960s did not spontaneously spring up out of nowhere, nor did it disappear when its work was "done." Rather the Civil Rights Movement was but one episode in a centuries-long struggle for human freedom and civil rights that continues to this day.

do profess faith in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ His only Son, and in the Holy Ghost, one God, blessed for evermore; and I do acknowledge the holy scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by divine inspiration. In particular, the slave states insist that only white males be allowed to vote, yet they simultaneously demand that their Black slaves be counted when figuring up how many members of the House of Representatives each state is entitled to.

And under the myth that Native-Americans are "citizens" of their "sovereign" Indian "nations" (meaning the reservations), they cannot be citizens of the United States. For 68 years there are struggles and movements in the various states to remove the property restrictions on the right to vote.

These battles are often bitter and occasionally violent.

The Constitutional Convention cannot agree on any national voting rights standard so they leave it up to each individual state.

This results in an absurd system whereby the Federal government determines who can be a citizen for the nation as a whole, but each individual state determines which of their citizens have the right to vote (or, more accurately, which of their citizens will be denied the right to vote).

The Movement grew out of what came before and evolved into the struggles being waged today.