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13th Amendment
The 13th amendment to the U.S. Constitution was abolishing slavery.
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14th Amendment
Rights of citizenship, due process of law, and equal protection of the law.
Group- African American -
15th Amendment
The right to vote should not be denied on account of race or color.
Group- African American -
Tuskegee Institute
Founded by, Booker T. Washington, established a normal school for colored teachers and provided students with academic and vocational training.
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Plessy vs. Ferguson
Established "separate but equal"
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NAACP
Key founder, W.E.B. Du Bois. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Civil Rights organization to help fight for African American rights.
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19th Amendment
The right to vote should not be denied based on sex.
Group- Women -
Equal Rights Amendment
Proposed by the National Women's political party, to provide for the legal equality of the sexes and prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, defeated in 1972.
Group- Women -
Executive Order 9981
President Truman abolished discrimination "on the basis of race, color, religion or national origin" in the military.
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Brown v. Board of Education
Integrated public schools. Overturns Plessy v. Ferguson.
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
Civil Rights protest in which African Americans refused to ride city buses protesting segregated seating. Kep person: Rosa Parks.
Group- African American -
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Advance civil rights in a non-violent manner. Key member: MLK.
Group- African American -
Little Rock 9
Governor Orval Faubus prevented 9 African American students from entering the high school. President Eisenhower uses National Guard to protect students entry into the school.
Group- African American -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
President Eisenhower established the Civil Rights Section of the Justice Department and empowered federal prosecutors to obtain court injunctions against interference with the right to vote.
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Greensboro, NC Sit-ins
Four African American students sat a whites only lunch counter and refused to leave after being denied service. Protesting racial segregation.
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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Student political organization civil rights movement group. Used nonviolent tactics.
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Chicano Movement
Mexican- American civil rights movement. Artists began using the walls of city buildings, housing projects, schools, and churches to depict Mexican- American culture.
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Freedom Riders
Civil Rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern U.S. Challenged and protested local laws that ignored integration.
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Cesar Chavez
Co-founded the National Farm Workers Association. And was a Latino American civil rights activist.
Group- Chicanos -
Dr. King's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"
He defends the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism.
Group- African American