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13th amendment
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, expect punishment for a crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted" -
14th Amendment
Citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws, and was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves following the American Civil War -
15th Amendment
Prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on the citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude. -
Plessy v Ferguson
Constitutional law case of the Supreme Court, upheld racial segregation laws for public facilities under the doctrine of "seperate but equal" -
Martin Luther King Jr.
American Baptist minister and activist who was a leader in the African- American Civil Rights Movement. He also had a "dream". -
Brown vs Board of Education
State laws establishing separate public schools for blacks and white students to be unconstitutional -
Rosa Parks Arrested
Refusing to give up her seat on a bus for a white person in Montgomery, Alabama. -
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Montgomery bus boycott
Political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation of the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama -
James Meredith& Univ of Mississippi
James Meredith is a civil rights activist who became the first African American to attend the University Of Mississippi -
"I have a dream"
Civil rights activist MLK jr. during the march on Washington for jobs and freedom on august 28th. where he calls for the end to racism in the united states and calls for civil and economical rights. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Landmark of civil rights and US labor law legislation in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin. -
Death of Malcolm X
Shot to death by Nation of Islam members while speaking at a rally of his organization at New York. -
Death of MLK
Small-time criminal planned plotting the assassination of revered civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. King was shot and killed in Memphis. -
26th amendment
Prohibits the states and the federal government from using age as a reason for denying your right to vote to citizens who are at least of age 18 years old. -
Civil rights acts of 1968
"refusal to sell or rent a dwelling to any person because of there race,color,religion, or national origin" -
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