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this amendment officially outlaws slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime
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considered one of the reconstruction amendments. it has three clauses , the citizenship, due process, and equal protection.
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provents each government in the united states from denying a citizen the right to vote
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this required racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrin of seperate but equal
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prohibites any united states citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex
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abolished racial segregation in the armed forces
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declared state laws establishing seperate public schools for black and white studets unconstitutional
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rosa parks refused to give up her seat to a white man even tho she was sitting in her appropriate section of the bus
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this started after rosa parks got arrested for not givig up her seat it lasted until december 20 1956 many african americans did not talke bus transportation to prove their point
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ensure that all americans could exercise their right to vote
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prohibites both congress and the state from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll taax or other types of tax
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outlawed major forms of discrimination against african americans and women
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outlawed discrimnation voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of african americans in the united states
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provided equal housing opprotunities regardless of race, creed, or national orgin