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In order to determine the population of a state only 3 of 5 slaves would count.
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Granted African-American men the right to vote.
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electoral districts that send two or more members to a legislative chamber.there are two other electoral systems employed in the United States, single-member and at-large.
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Outlined the rights that American women should be entitled to as citizens, that emerged from the Seneca Falls Convention in New York
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Scott was a slave and ran to a free state but his owner said that he had to be returned because he was still a slave. Supreme Court ruled that African Americans could not sue cause they were not citizens.
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“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” (end of slavery, not racism)
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Granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and slaves who had been emancipated after the American Civil War.
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Supreme Court ruled "separate but equal". Plessy rode a white train car being black because he was against this segregation but the Supreme Court backed up Louisiana, "separate but equal".
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The NAACP, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, is a civil rights organization founded in 1909 to fight prejudice, lynching, and Jim Crow segregation, and to work for the betterment of "people of color."
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Gave women the right to vote.
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It would give men and women full equality under the law.
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The Court reasoned that the rule restricting primary voters to whites denied Smith equal protection under the law in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Executive order that orders the desegregation of the armed forces. "It is hereby declared to be the policy of the President that there shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion, or national origin."
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Separate but equal is not equal. Everything has to be fairly equal. Segregation in public schools is unconstitutional.
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Supreme court case that declared Mexican Americans had the right to jury and all other racial groups had equal protection under the 14th amendment.
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Group of nine black students who enrolled at formerly all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Orval Faubus called in the Arkansas National Guard to block their entry Later that month, President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent in federal troops to escort the Little Rock Nine into the school.
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Outlawed the poll tax as a voting requirement in federal elections. Took away thing like Jim Crow laws.
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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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Law enforcement of African Americans being able to vote without loopholes.
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Cesar Chavez and the farm workers he had been organizing in the National Farm Workers Association joined the strike. ... In 1966, Chavez and a group of strikers set out on a 340-mile march from Delano to Sacramento to draw attention to plight of farm workers, and during this strike the union won its first contract.
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Dedicated to its multi-issue and multi-strategy approach to women’s rights. NOW
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non-profit civil rights organization formed in 1968 to protect the rights of Latinos in the United States
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Jones a black man charged that a real estate company in Missouri's St. Louis County refused to sell him a home in a particular neighborhood on account of his race. Supreme Court sided with him.
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series of violent confrontations that began in the early hours of June 28, 1969, between police and gay rights activists outside the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar. BIRTH OF GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT.
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Court held that the law's dissimilar treatment of men and women was unconstitutional. The Court argued that "[t]o give a mandatory preference to members of either sex over members of the other, merely to accomplish the elimination of hearings on the merits, is to make the very kind of arbitrary legislative choice forbidden by the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. . .[T]he choice in this context may not lawfully be mandated solely on the basis of sex."
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It would give men and women full equality under the law. EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT
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Equal opportunity at school events, programs, clubs for every student.
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Women were allowed to become armed forces of the army, navy etc.
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Unconstitutional gender classifications on drinking that got taken away by the Supreme Court
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Rawlinson wanted to be a prison guard but didn't meat the physical requirements. The Supreme Court sided with her and agreed that this was discrimination.
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The Supreme Court ruled that a Texas law forbidding illegal immigrants to attend public school was unconstitutional because it violated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.
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employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, and national origin was outlawed
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LGBTQ could be in military but could not say anything about their sexual orientation.
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Prior to being ruled unconstitutional, defined marriage for federal purposes as the union of one man and one woman, and allowed states to refuse to recognize same-sex marriages granted under the laws of other states.
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First stae to recognize same sex marriage
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U.S was trying to say that this women and her dead wife's marriage didn't count. Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional.
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Same sex marriage made legal.
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Baker could not make gay cake because it went agains his religion. Supreme Court agreed.
