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13th Amendment
This amendment outlaws slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. -
14th Amendment
The amandment to the U.S. constitution which grants citizenship to everyone born in the US and subject to its jurisdiction and protects civil and political rights -
15th Amendment
This amendment prohibits each government in the United States from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude". -
Plessey vs. Ferguson
Plessy(one-eighth black) was legally required to sit in the colored car of the train, but Plessy refused to sit in the colored car and was arrested.The Plessy decision confirmed that "separate" facilities for blacks and whites were constitutional as long as they were "equal" -
19th Amendment
This amendment prohibits any United States citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex- women's suffrage. -
Executive Order of 1948
Order issued by President Harry S. Truman that abolished racial segregation in the armed forces. -
Brown vs. Board of Education
Supreme Court decision that declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional. -
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat
In Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks refused to obey a bus driver's order that she give up her seat to make room for a white passenger -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
A protest campaign that started in 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama,intended to oppose the city's policy of racial segregation on its public transit system -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
Congress's first civil rights legislation since the end of Reconstruction, established the U.S. Justice Department as a guarantor of the right to vote -
24th Amendment
This amendment 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 -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Act that outlawed major forms of discrimination against African Americans and women, including racial segregation. It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Act that bans racial discrimination in voting practices by the government. -
Civil Rights Act of 1968
Act that provided for equal housing opportunities regardless of race, creed, or national origin.
