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African American Discrimination
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Civil Rights Act of 1866
The Civil Rights Bill granted citizenship and civil rights to all male persons in the United States “without distinction of race and color.” -
Hiram Revels elected Senate Chamber
Hiram Revels makes an oath that states that every slave will be able to tought how to read and write and get an education -
First colored Senator and Representatives
Joesph Rainey was the first African American that was elected to the House of Representatives -
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Civil RIghts Act of 1875
Protected the rights of Americans regardless of what race they were and now there was social equality -
Anti Lynching Bills intorduced
More than 200 anti-lynching bills were passed throughout the House of Representatives in which they blocked these events in the south -
The Civil Rights act of 1964
This outlawed discrimination in public places and prohibited employment discrimination -
March leading to Voting Rights act
On March 25, 1965, Martin Luther King addressed civil rights activists in Montgomery, Alabama, who had endured violent resistance and long days of walking on a 54-mile march from Selma, Alabama. They had marched, in part, to protest the blockage of legal voting rights for African Americans in the South