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13th Amendment
Abolished Slavery. -
14th Amendment
Citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws. -
15th Amendment
The right to vote. -
Plessey V. Ferguson
Upheld the state law requiring racial segregation in public. "separate but equal." -
Memdez V. Westminster
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Delgado V Bastrop
Equaled Mexican American education. -
Executive order 9981
Abolished racial discrimination in the US military. -
Sweatt V. Painter
Challenged the "separate but equal" doctrine of segregation. -
Brown v Board of education
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Hernandez v Texas
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Civil rights act of 1956
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Civil rights act of 1957
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24th Amendment
Prohibits requiring a poll tax for voters. -
Voting rights act of 1965
Prohibits discrimination in voting. (Alabama police in 1965 attack voting rights marchers participating in the first of the Selma to Montgomery marches) -
Edgewood v Kirby
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