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-slaves are declared free
-did not apply to Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri and parts of Virginia and Louisiana until December 1865
-some slaves still ended up working with former owners -
-granted citizenship to African Americans
-equal protection of the law
-overruled the Dred Scott v. Sandford -
-guaranteed blacks the right to vote
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-"seperate but equal" in laws requiring racial segregation
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-right for women to vote
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-President Truman abolished racial segregation in the army
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-made seperate schools for black and white unconstituational
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Rosa parks refuses to give up her seat behind the white section for a white man. She was arrested for violating laws of segregatoin
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-Inspired by Rosa Parks
-african americans refused taking public transportation until they could sit anywhere on the bus
-lasted 13 months -
-proposal for civil rights legistlation from Eisenhower
-first civil rights legislation since reconstruction -
made poll taxes illegal for all federal elections
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"bans racial discrimination in voting practices by the federal government as well as by state and local governments" http://www.civilrights.org/voting-rights/vra/
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provided for equal housing opportunities regardless of race, creed, or national origin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1968
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outlawed major forms of discrimination against African Americans and women
