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The abolishment of slavery.
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Rights of citizenship, due process of law, and equal protection of the law. The 14th amendment has become one of the most used amendments in court to date regarding the equal protection clause.
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Granted African American men the right to vote.
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Was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality.
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It is a civil rights organization in the US to advance justice for African Americans by W.E.B. Du Bois, Mary Ovington, Moorfield Storey and Ida B. Wells.
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Granted women the right to vote.
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The equal rights amendment was to provide for the legal equality of the sexes and prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex.
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By president Harry S. Truman to abolish discrmination. This eventually led to the end of segregation in the services.
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Was a supreme court case. State-sanctioned segregation of public schools was a violation of the 14th amendment and was therefore unconstitutional.
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Political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama.
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A group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School. They weren't able to enter the school at 1st.
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The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is an African-American civil rights organization. SCLC, which is closely associated with its first president, Martin Luther King Jr., had a large role in the American civil rights movement.
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The bill was passed by the 85th United States Congress and signed into law by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
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Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961.
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Chavez founded the National Farm Workers Association in 1962.
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Was an open letter written on April 16, 1963, by Martin Luther King Jr. The letter defends the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism.
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"I Have a Dream" is a public speech that was delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963, in which he called for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United States.
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A landmark civil rights and labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. It prohibits unequal application of voter registration requirements, and racial segregation in schools, employment, and public accommodations.
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The Twenty-fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax.
