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15th Amendment
Declares that no one can be denied the right to vote because of their race. -
Civil Rights Act of 1875
Guaranteed black patrons the right to ride trains and use public facilities. -
Battle of Little Big Horn
Happened when Crazy Horse and at least 2,000 fellow indians fought General George Custer and his 250 men, resulting in all 251 deaths. -
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Prohibited immigration by Chinese laborers, limited the civil rights of Chinese immigrants already in the United States, and forbade the naturalization of Chinese residents. -
The Chinese Exclusion Act
The act was extended for another 10 years. -
First Women Voting
Colorado becomes the first state to grant women the right to vote. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
The Supreme Court case established the " separate but equal " doctrine. -
NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is founded by W.E.B Du Bois, Jane Addams, John Dewey and others. It was founded to confront civil rights issues and partly because of the lynchings. -
First Women Elected to Congress
Rep. Jeannette Rankin becomes the first women elected to congress. -
19th Amendment
Gives women the right to vote. -
Ozawa v. United States
The Supreme Court denied Japanese residents the right to naturalization because they were ineligible for citizenship as were foreign - born Chinese. -
The Immigration Act
The act keeps any " aliens ineligible to citizenship " from entering the United States. -
Indian Citizenship Act of 1924
Granting American citizenship to Native Americans. -
JACL
Japanese American Citizens League is founded because of continuing discrimination against Japanese in the United States. -
LULAC
The league of United Latin American Citzens is founded to fight discrimination, help Latinos and protest segregation, killings and other abuses.
