"the modern civil rights movement pushed for an end to both de jure and de facto discrimination. when did this movement begin? "

There was an increase in public policies seeking to foster racial equality in the 1950s. On December 1, 1955,  the modern civil rights movement pushed for an end to both de jure and de facto discrimination movement begin. It began when Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, was arrested for refusing to move to the back of the bus in Montgomery, Alabama.

What’s the question here?

His belief that laws designed to the majority would succeed in aiding minorities as well