Despite inattention given to the civil rights movement in 1973, it was very much alive then. The major groups of the movement still existed. In addition, anticivil rights groups funded by Mississippi and Alabama taxpayers continued to spy on movement participants. However, both the movement and its opposition did not effectively adjust to federally imposed desegregation under the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. Their simultaneous disintegration in 1973 effectively ended the civil rights movement era.
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