How did civil rights activists and political leaders achieve some legal and political successes in ending segregation?

They both made them self heard in the community and came up with a campaign that no one could come up with a good opposition to.

affirmative action refers to the policies that take gender, race, or ethnicity into account in order to promote equal opportunity.

employers subject to title vii are prohibited from taking race or sex into account in any employment decisions. aa is a penalty for having any job group substantially statistically "underutilized" in any race or either sex. the employer must take steps to eliminate the underutilization, then stop, ending its aa efforts

b or c im pretty sure