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The struggle for civil rights in the United States—freedom from governmental discrimination (unequal treatment) based on age, gender, race, or other personal characteristics—has affected many groups in the United States. Slavery—sanctioned, however discreetly, by the U.S. Constitution—paved the way for decades of racial discrimination in the United States, and so we start there.