Absolutely. This of course does not mean that prejudice does not exist. People have learned to be more tolerant of other cultures, races, ethnicities, etc. and attitudes have thus changed.
In the 1960's there was a huge civil rights movement going on. People were fighting for equality.
There were many events that led to desegregation. There were many unfair attacks on The Freedom Riders and the field secretary for the NAACP, Medgar Evans, was murdered.
Prominent equal rights activists were murdered, such as Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. They fought for equal rights and helped in making the United States a more tolerant nation.
America still holds a lot of discrimination against people based on gender, ethnicity, and race but we have definitely come a long way in the last fifty years.
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