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They had done all in their power to avoid coming into contact with the cops. The civil rights movement had been infiltrated by far too many police officers.
If they didn't get arrested, it might make people resent them, and they wanted to demonstrate how they were being treated and how the police were putting them in jail for doing nothing. To demonstrate that they are civilized and will accept the punishment despite its severity and basis in racial prejudice, they would be detained, taken to jail, and given their sentence.
Between 1954 to 1968 in the United States, the civil rights movement[b] was a political movement and campaign to end institutionalized racial segregation, discrimination, and racial disenfranchisement. Although the movement's origins may be traced back to the Reconstruction era in the late 19th century, it did not achieve its greatest legislative successes until the 1960s, following years of direct actions.
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