“A 19-Year-Old Black Woman’s Perspective on Joining the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s” As a 19-year-old black woman living in the year 1963, I am faced with the harsh realities of racial

Imagine you are in the 1960s — you can pick the year and setting, but you’re going to be exactly as you are now… your age, sex/gender, ethnicity/race, etc. Do you think you would have joined a protest movement? Which one and why? What would have driven you in that direction? Or what would have prevented you? List a couple of accomplishments of any of the rights revolutions or social movements in the sixties, picking those that you think had the largest impact.
The perspective you are going to give is from a 19-year-old black woman. The movement she is going to join is the civil rights movement.
An article talking about the sixties:

27. The Sixties


(Feel free to reference other articles talking about the civil rights movement.)

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