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Between 1880 and 1930, an estimated 2,400 black men, women, and children were killed by lynch mobs.
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Passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865, the 13th amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
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-Laws that had the effect of restricting African Americans' freedom, and of compelling them to work in a labor economy based on low wages or debt.
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granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included former slaves recently freed.
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the 15th amendment granted African American men the right to vote.
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-Jim Crow laws were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States.
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-Homer PLessy sat on white side of train
-broke Louisiana State Law
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- Mexican-American physician, surgeon, World War II veteran, civil rights advocate, and founder of the American G.I. Forum
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t granted women the right to vote.
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etty Friedan was an American writer, activist, and feminist.
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Ratified January 23, 1933. The 20th Amendment changed a portion of Article I, Section 4, and a portion of the 12th Amendment.
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s a United States government agency created as part of the National Housing Act of 1934.
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- MLK lead the protest -Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and Henry David Thoreau inspired MLK with the process -The civil rights movement was from the 1950s to the 60s
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Brown v. Board of Education was a Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.
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-Desegregation is the process of ending the separation of two groups usually referring to races.
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-Tha seminal event in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement
-Was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation -
The Civil Rights Act of 1957 was also Congress's show of support for the Supreme Court's Brown decisions
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-A form of protest in which demonstrators occupy a place, refusing to leave until their demands are met.
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or positive discrimination (known as employment equity in Canada, reservation in India and Nepal, and positive action in the UK) is the policy of favoring members of a disadvantaged group who suffer from discrimination within a culture.
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On January 23, 1964, the United States ratified the 24th Amendment to the Constitution, prohibiting any poll tax in elections for federal officials.
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is a landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
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Wood pulp, paper and chemicals are the economic mainstays of Washington Parish Louisiana.
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is a federally funded educational program within the United States. The program is one of a cluster of programs now referred to as TRIO.
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-Professed refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government, or of an occupying international power.
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Ratified July 1, 1971. The 26th Amendment changed a portion of the 14th Amendment.
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s a comprehensive federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in any federally funded education program or activity.
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-MLK was a clergymen, activist
-He lead the African American civil Rights Movement and the Peace Movement
-He was sent to jail for protesting
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-Agrued and won Brown vs Board of Education
-Worked for the NAACP
-1st African American supreme court justice -
-An American farm worker
-Labor leader
-Civil rights activist
-With Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association. -
-known for his stand in the desegregation of Little Rock High School where he ordered Arkansas National Guard
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-Governor of Alabama
-Ran for U.S. President 4 times
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-Governor of Georgia
-Former restaurant owner who refused to serve Blacks
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-Known for the Monthomery Bus boycott
-Was a civil rights activitst
-Was born on February 4, 1913
