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prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
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granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and enslaved
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The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
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a decades-long fight to win the right to vote for women in the United States.
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The Plessy v. Ferguson decision upheld the principle of racial segregation over the next half-century. The ruling provided legal justification for segregation on trains and buses, and in public facilities such as hotels, theaters, and schools.
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interracial American organization created to work for the abolition of segregation and discrimination in housing, education, employment, voting, and transportation
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Approved June, 4, 1919. Ratified August 1920
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held that restrictive covenants in real property deeds which prohibited the sale of property to non-Caucasians unconstitutionally violate the equal protection provision of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that racial segregation in public schools violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution
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An african american woman who would not give up her seat to a white man.
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prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
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American activist organization (founded 1966) that promotes equal rights for women. It is the largest feminist group in the United States, with some 500,000 members in the early 21st century.
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an important United States Supreme Court case involving school desegregation
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upheld busing programs that aimed to speed up the racial integration of public schools in the United States.
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A "yes" vote supported adding Section 31 to the California Constitution's Declaration of Rights, which said that the state cannot discriminate against or grant preferential treatment on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, and public contracting.