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Controversial case were a slave sued multiple times for his freedom
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Former President Lincoln's speech to free the slaves
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Amendment that abolished slavery and involuntary servitutde, except as a criminal punishment
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State and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States
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Equal protection under the laws
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Gave African American men the right to vote
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Controversial court ruling that upheld constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the facilities were equal in quality
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was established and is America's largest and oldest civil rights group
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Gave women the right to vote
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Proposed amendment that civil rights may not be denied based on sex
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Jackie was the first African-American to play professional baseball
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Nine African American students who enrolled at a formerly all white high school in Little Rock, Arkansas
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Supreme court case that ruled America's state laws establighing racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional
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Political and social protest in Montgomery, Alabama where African Americans avoiding using the buses
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Ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin
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Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his speech to protesters at the 1963 March of Washington to speak about the struggles of African-Americans
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250,000 people marched on Washington and gathered in front of the Lincoln memorial in a massive protest
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Recruitment of African-Americans to vote in Mississippi
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Signed by President Johnson in 1965 to outlaw the discriminatory voting practices adopted by southern states after the civil war
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Massive March from Selma, Alabama to Montgomery, Alabama as a series of protests about the unjust racial laws, mostly prevelant in Alabama
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Founded in Washington, D.C. to give women a voice in getting the equal rights
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Originally called the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, it was created to monitor police activities in some California towns
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Martin Luther King Jr was killed in Tennessee
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No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance
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Case about the consitutionality on abortion, brough forth because the 14th amendment gave women the decision to decide