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13th Amendment
-Abolished most forms of slavery (except as punishment for a crime)
-Important because it finally freed the people who had been enslaved -
14th Amendment
-Granted citizenship to all people born in the U.S.
-Important because it gave citizenship to former slaves who had been freed -
15th Amendment
-Granted African American men the right to vote
-Important because it was a step towards justice for racial inequality -
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Jim Crow Laws
The Jim Crow Laws were laws of segregation between people of color and white people. Opposition to these laws brought about a major civil rights movement, to prove that "separate but equal" is not true equality. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
U.S. Supreme Court Case that upheld state racial segregation laws as "separate but equal -
Mendez vs. Westminster School District of Orange County
-Federal Court Case that challenged racial segregation in schools in Orange County, CA -
Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
- U.S. Supreme Court case which declared racial segregation of schools to be unconstitutional.
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
-Political protest against the policy of racial segregation in buses in Montgomery, Alabama. -
Little Rock Nine
-Nine black students enroll in and attend Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas
-Landmark event following the ruling that segregation in schools is unconstitutional -
Martin Luther King Jr. "I Have a Dream" Speech
-MLK delivers his famous speech at the March on Washington, a massive rally for a civil rights bill.