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Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was a debate in Congress about letting slave and free states into the union. Everytime a state was added there had to be a free and slave state. -
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African American Timeline
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Civil War
Abraham Lincoln was elected president. it caused the Civil War. -
13 amendment passed
Black people got the right to vote. -
Plessey V. Ferguson
The Court avoided discussion of the protection granted by the clause in the 14th Amendment that forbids the states to make laws depriving citizens of their “privileges or immunities,” but instead cited such laws in other states as a “reasonable” exercise of their authority under the police power. -
I Have a Dream
This was a speech he gave in Washington D.C. to alot of people to stop racists. -
Civil Rights Act
The Civil Rights Act signed into law in April 1968–popularly known as the Fair Housing Act–prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin and sex. -
Loving v. Virginia
In 1958, two residents of Virginia, Mildred Jeter, a black woman, and Richard Loving, a white man, were married in the District of Columbia. The Lovings returned to Virginia shortly thereafter. The couple was then charged with violating the state's antimiscegenation statute, which banned inter-racial marriages. -
Civil Rights Act of 1968
Intendednas a foloow up to the Ciil Rights act of 1964. I textended the rights of African Americans. -
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Black lives matter
Black lives Matter Stopping violence against blacks from police officers and others.
