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I'm not old enough to remember the 60's...
But I'm thinking the ability to vote without harassment, and the ability to sit wherever you want on the damn bus and drink out of whatever water fountain you want, and actually go _inside_ and sit at the counter in any restaurant without being tarred, feathered, and strung up by the local lynching squad... probably has a place in promoting a better "social" status, imho.
Maybe things were "better" in the Northern States... but I reckon that wasn't the case for the Southern counterparts... and, besides, I think it could be argued (from a certain point of view) that things were better economically and socially during the 40's and 50's, all-together... without letting race enter the equation.
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