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The 13th Amendment officially made it illegal to own slaves in America thus ending slavery for good
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Rights of citizenship, due process of law, and equal protection of the law. The 14th amendment has become one of the most used amendments in court to date regarding the equal protection clause
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Allowed colored men to vote which was a step forward to desegregating the whole country
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Created by Booker T. Washington with the purpose of educating colored people so that they may be seen as equals in the future
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Allowed the separation of coloreds from whites because they were still technically equal
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored people was created to try and end segregation in America
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Gave all people the right to vote regardless of race and gender
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The equal right amendment was first proposed by the National Women’s political party to end segregation by gender and allow women to be completely equal
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A civil rights activist who co-founded the United Farm Workers
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The part of the Civil Rights movement designed to gain more rights of Mexican Americans
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This executive order called for the desegregation of all military armed forces in America
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Supreme court case that stated the segregation of schools under “separate, but equal” actually wasn’t equal at all and thus they ended segregation in schools
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In order to protest segregated seating on buses a group of African Americans refused to ride city buses as a form of peaceful protest
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The SCLC was formed to bring an end to black segregation and during the Vietnam war they peacefully protested to speak out against it
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Formed to fight the denial of black enrollment in Little Rock Central High and resulted in the Little Rock Crisis
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Signed by Eisenhower and established the civil rights division of the supreme court
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A group of African American students sat in a segregated part of a diner and refused to leave even after they were denied service
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Formed to fully organize student involvement in the Civil Rights movements of the 1960’s
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Groups of civil rights activists that rode public buses into the south in order to desegregate public buses
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A letter written that defends civil rights activists who use non-violent methods of protest
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A speech given by Martin Luther King JR. where he spoke out against racism and segregation against all colored people in the USA
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Ended the national segregation of public places such as schools, buses, parks, restaurants, etc
