The very first thing we need to do as a nation and as individual members of
             society is to confront our past...we need to recognize it for what it was and is and not
             explain away, excuse it, or justify it. Having done that, we should make a good faith
             effort to turn our history around so that we can see it in front of us, so that we can avoid
             doing what we have done for so long." Attempts to reverse centuries of inequality
             through assenting action and cultural self-determination are not attacks on whites, as
             such, but on the system of racism. The goal of these strategies is not to turn the present
             racial order on its head but rather to achieve an anti-racist society where all individuals
             have the right to dignity, power, self-determination, and expectation of equal outcomes
             for the value of their unique contributions to society (Derman-Sparks, pg. 26). The Civil
             Rights Movement was at a peak from 1955-1965. Congress passed the Civil Rights Act
             of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, guaranteeing basic civil rights for all
             Americans, regardless of race after nearly a decade of nonviolent protests and marches,
             ranging from the 1955-1956 Montgomery bus boycott to the student-led sit-ins of the
             1960s to the huge March on Washington in 1963(Cozzens, Lisa) The movement for civil
             rights in the 1960's helped break down the wall of racial inequality.
             In the 1960's several actions to end racial discrimination were introduced
             throughout the nation. In Greensboro, North Carolina Sit-ins became a popular type of
             protest among African Americans especially the Student Nonviolent Coordinating
             Committee (D'Souza 169). The 1960's version of fast- food restaurants had
             segregated lunch counters. African American's sat at "white only" lunch counters
             refusing to leave until served. Practicing civil disobedience, demonstrators protested at
             restauran...