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13th amendment
made slavery legal -
14th amendment
all citizens are equal under the law and entitled to due process -
15th amendment
all male citizens have the right to vote -
jim crow laws
laws that segregated african americans from whites and didnt let african americans to vote because of laws like the grandfather clause -
19th amendment
helped women to be able to vote in national elections -
desegregation of the armed forces
president harry truman desegregated the armed forces through an executive order after world war 2 -
sit ins
people started sitting in places were colored people werent allowed until they served them food if they werent served they stayed even though people hurt them they wanted to be treated equal -
freedom rides
it was when people started to ride in buses all over the country to influence other people to follow their non protest movement to chane the laws but also they sometimes got stopped and beat down -
24th amendment
let people vote for all kinds of people like president, vice president, senators or representative to congress cant be denied by poll taxes or voting tax and congress had power to enforce it -
voting rights act
they fought for their rights to be able to vote but whites didnt like that so they beat the colored up
