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  -outlawed slavery everywhere in the United States
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  - protects certain rights of the people -with three important clauses
- what it means to be a US citizen
 
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  - protects the rights of Americans to vote -Any American cannot be denied the right to vote
 
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  -was a landmark constitutional law case
 -upheld state racial segregation laws
 -victory for supporters of racial segregation
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  - federal court case -challenged Mexican remedial schools -in Orange County
 
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  - Truman issues executive order requiring integrated units in the armed forces
 
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  -fought for the violation of the 14th amendment
 -saying that segregation of public schools are unconstitutional
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  -started with Rosa Parks being arrested
 -a 381-day bus boycott
 -organized by Martin Luther King, Jr
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  -9 african american teenagers are able to go to Little Rock's Central High School
 -in Arkansas
 -to start desegregation
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  -More than 200,000 blacks and whites gather before Lincoln Memorial
 - protest racial injustice
 -MLK said his I Have a Dream speech
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  -bombing was an act of white supremacist terrorism
 - in Birmingham, Alabama
 -killed 4 black girls
 -killers were members of the kkk
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  -All were members of the Congress of Racial Equality
 -killed by members of KKK
 -got sentenced to no more than 6 years
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  -signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson
 -overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from voting
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  -in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles
 -it was five days of violence
 -left 34 dead
 -1,032 injured
 -4,000 arrested
 -$40 million worth of property destroyed
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  -founded in Oakland, California
 founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale
 -purpose was to patrol African American neighborhoods to protect residents from acts of police brutality
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  - King is shot -people go on riots
 
