“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,” Martin Luther King wrote in his letter from a Birmingham prison (King 269). The 1960s would become a time of protest movements and injustice and inequality would be the common theme. For two groups in particular, African Americans and women, inequality had been going on for a long time. The Civil Rights Movement, followed by the Women's Liberation Movement, would use similar tactics and reasoning to try to get what they wanted. The protests and movements of the 1960s saw the United States policing the world during the Cold War to establish freedom and using this hypocrisy to try to establish its own freedom. African Americans have been subject to discrimination since they first arrived in the United States. In Martin Luther King's letter he talks about how African Americans were told to wait but explains that they are impatient and can no longer wait to earn equal rights (King, 270-271). Discrimination in all aspects of life is what the Civil Rights Movement is protesting. A huge court case that contributed a lot to this discrimination was Plessey v. Ferguson. It was stated that blacks and whites could be separated if the facilities were equal. This decision led to segregated schools, bathrooms and drinking fountains, just to name a few. The problem was that these facilities were nowhere near equality, especially schools where black children lagged far behind their white counterparts. The other thing that African Americans were protesting was discrimination in general. Many times employers refused to hire blacks or, if they did, they were given the most menial jobs that paid very little. This, combined with white control of the center of the paper, started before second wave feminism, this could have contributed to more resistance and then when people see this movement succeeding, they are. less resistant to women's liberation because they assume it will succeed like the civil rights movement did. Discrimination by sex and race has been a major issue in the United States since its founding. People of different races and genders have long fought for equal rights. However, the movements of the 1960s managed to take advantage of the hypocrisy of US freedom. The United States makes a bad impression when it fights for the freedom of other countries during the Cold War, but has nothing remotely close to freedom within its own borders. These movements, by forming organizations, protesting non-violently, and using the courts and government, have been able to gain equal rights for their cause..