This:

The fight for social and legal equality was seen during the sixties in the United States in the Civil Rights movement. Though ultimately defeated by subversion by those in power then as now, the civil rights movement made great progress, and the ideals professed by the movement put some hope into the oppressed masses of the illiterate and impoverished peoples.

is clearly not NPOV. I'd like to see some mention of particular areas of progress (Civil Rights Act), and the discussion properly framed in neutral terms. -- DAD 21:35, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I agree that the article needs to be revised, for the reason stated by the original dissenter.

The offending text has been removed, and I think this article, though probably qualifying as a stub, is no longer NPOV.