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Dred Scott Case
Controversial case were a slave sued multiple times for his freedom -
Emancipation Proclamation
Former President Lincoln's speech to free the slaves -
13th Amendment
Amendment that abolished slavery and involuntary servitutde, except as a criminal punishment -
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Jim Crow Laws
State and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States -
14th Amendment
Equal protection under the laws -
15th Amendment
Gave African American men the right to vote -
Plessy vs Ferguson
Controversial court ruling that upheld constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the facilities were equal in quality -
NAACP
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was established and is America's largest and oldest civil rights group -
19th Amendment
Gave women the right to vote -
Equal Rights Amendment
Proposed amendment that civil rights may not be denied based on sex -
Jackie Robinson Broke Color Barrier
Jackie was the first African-American to play professional baseball -
Little Rock Nine
Nine African American students who enrolled at a formerly all white high school in Little Rock, Arkansas -
Brown vs Board of Education
Supreme court case that ruled America's state laws establighing racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional -
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
Political and social protest in Montgomery, Alabama where African Americans avoiding using the buses -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin -
"I have a dream" Speech
Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his speech to protesters at the 1963 March of Washington to speak about the struggles of African-Americans -
March on Washington
250,000 people marched on Washington and gathered in front of the Lincoln memorial in a massive protest -
Freedom Summer
Recruitment of African-Americans to vote in Mississippi -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Signed by President Johnson in 1965 to outlaw the discriminatory voting practices adopted by southern states after the civil war -
Selma to Montgomery March
Massive March from Selma, Alabama to Montgomery, Alabama as a series of protests about the unjust racial laws, mostly prevelant in Alabama -
National Organisation for Women
Founded in Washington, D.C. to give women a voice in getting the equal rights -
Creation of the Black Panther Party
Originally called the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, it was created to monitor police activities in some California towns -
Assassination of Martine Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr was killed in Tennessee -
Title IX
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 -
Roe vs Wade
Case about the consitutionality on abortion, brough forth because the 14th amendment gave women the decision to decide