Or, it could be that agents of law enforcement infiltrated and destroyed those powerful movements. Are you actually going to argue that other marginalized groups didn't, and don't, have their own histories of oppression to conquer? "...to go live next to white folks?" How about to live wherever the hell you want to live because you deserve a yard, green space, and whatever else comes with the neighborhood in which you CHOOSE to live.
No matter how much you portray yourself as a "student of history," the space where your knowledge ought to be seems to be filled with anger, blame, and gullibility.