Century: Rights Movement and Jim Crow

century: Reconstruction in the 18th century was followed by a century of Jim Crow, according to CNN. The civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s was followed by President Ronald Reagan and the rise of the religious right. But the term describes an old reality Dramatic racial progress in America is inevitably followed by a white backlash, or whitelash. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.