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13th Amendment
-Amendment in the Constitution that declared no slavery in the United States -
14th Amendment
-Granted citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the United States" -
15th Amendment
-Granted African American men the right to vote in the United States -
Plessy vs. Ferguson
-Constitutional law case for the US Supreme Court
-Upheld state racial segregation laws for public facilities -
Mendez vs. Westminster School District of Orange County
-Orange County, California
-Challenged racial segregation in the schools -
Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
-Topeka, Kansas
-Overturned the Plessy vs Ferguson case
-Helped the American Civil Rights movement -
Emmett Till
-14 year old African American boy who was kidnapped and murdered
-Expanded the want for racial reform in the south
-Money Mississipi -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
-Authorities arrested Rosa Parks for refusing to give up her seat on a bus
Montgomery, Alabama -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
-President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Civil Rights Act of 1957 into law
-Helped to protect civil rights -
March on Washington
-1/4 of the Americans in the US marched to Washington D.C.
-Protested for Civil Rights -
JFK assasination
-President John F. Kennedy was assassinated
-Dallas Texas -
New York Race Riots
-First series of race-riots in the US
-Spread the riots throughout the country -
New York School Boycott
-A large demonstration in the Civil Rights movement
-Thousands of people protested at a school to end the segregation between blacks and whites -
Selma-Montgomery March
-Protest to black voter rights
-Dallas County, Alabama -
Watts Riot
-A six day riot
-Added to the feud between police and the civil rights movement crowd -
Dr. King's assassination
-Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated
-People went crazy because their role model and leader was dead
-Added to the Civil Rights feud
-Memphis, Tennessee