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U.S Constitution
-U.S Constitution took away the rights of African Americans -
Period: to
Civil Rights Movement
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President Eisenhower
-Ordered National Guard to protect African American students
-Desegregation -
Civil Rights Movement
-Civil Rights Movement bagan -
Emmett Till
-African American teenager was beaten and killed by two white men -
Rosa Parks
-African Americn women arrested for not giving up her seat to a white man on a public bus -
Oxford student
-James Meredith was the first African American student admitted to Oxford
-Needed 24 hour bodyguard protection
-Riots were started when James enrolled -
Kennedy's demands
-Kennedy order Geoge C. Wallace to step aside
-African American students attend the University of Alabama -
March on Washington D.C
-Nations capital Washington D.C
-African Americans march for jobs and freedom -
Voting Rights Act
-1964 to 1968
-Voting Rights Act to help African Americans register to vote -
Fair Housing Act
-Racial descrimination
-Most houses in the nation were not to be sold or rented to African Americans -
Law School
-Law School program gave special consideration to minority students
-Legal