What did the civil rights movement do?

Why this is the answer

The official answer is brief: the civil rights movement fought to end racial discrimination. To see what that meant, picture the laws it was up against. During the 1900s many states required people of different races to attend separate schools, eat in separate restaurants and live in separate neighborhoods, and other laws made it hard for people to vote because of their race. Some states also had laws that discriminated against Latino and Asian Americans. The Supreme Court had allowed segregation in 1896 with the "separate but equal" rule of Plessy v. Ferguson. The turning point came on May 17, 1954, when the Court ruled unanimously in Brown v. Board of Education that segregating public schools by race violated the 14th Amendment. The decision gave new energy to a civil rights movement that was already growing. What followed was a campaign of nonviolent action: bus boycotts, sit-ins and marches, including the March on Washington in 1963. Martin Luther King, Jr. was its main leader, and Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta led in the Latino community. The movement won two landmark federal laws. The Civil Rights Act, signed on July 2, 1964, outlawed segregation in theaters, restaurants, hotels and public places such as pools and libraries, and made it illegal to discriminate based on race, religion, sex or national origin. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 banned literacy tests and other requirements that had been used to stop African Americans from registering to vote. In the interview, the key word is discrimination. The movement did not end slavery and it did not win women the vote; those are answers to other questions on the list. If you want to say a little more than the official line, name one of the two laws. That shows you know the movement not only protested but changed federal law, and it connects this question to the next one, about Martin Luther King, Jr.