Have the goals of the civil rights movement been achieved? Explain why or why not.

The civil rights movement, which was led by Martin Luther King, was able to make significant progress in combating racial segregation. America after King is a much more homogeneous, monolithic society than in the 1950s. Experts admit that King's activities really created a new reality, but they note that modern America has not become less controversial than it was, but the nature of the contradictions just changed - latent racism replaced institutional racism.