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It was an amendment that would not allow slavery unless as a punishment for someone convicted of a crime
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This was a reconstruction amendment that would protect equal rights laws to former slaves
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This amendment would give African American men the right to vote
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Was a supreme court case from New Orleans that argued the Jim Crow laws contradicted the 13th and 14th Amendments
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This was the first court case to bring up that school segregation violates the 14th Amendment
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It was a Supreme Court case that would make segregation of schools illegal.
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Emmett Till was murdered by two white men after he had whistled to one of their wives in a grocery store in Money, Mississippi and his death brought people to take more action in the Civil Rights movement
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Occurred in Montgomery Alabama and was a protest against public transit segregation
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9 African American students in Little Rock, Arkansas attended a school that used to be whites only, causing angry staff, parents and students
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More than 400 Black and White Americans would test and purposefully violate Jim Crow laws, inspiring many.
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The march was held in Washington DC and the purpose was to fight for civil and Economic rights for African Americans
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This legislation was signed by Lyndon Johnson and would outlaw segregation
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Selma was a city in Alabama that Martin Luther King and his followers decided to make the city the focus of African Americans registering to vote
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He may not have been a believer in peaceful protest, but his death in Washington Heights, NY did leave many people realizing how wrong African Americans were being treated.
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Signed in by Lyndon Johnson, it would allow African Americans the right to vote
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After King's assassination in Memphis, Tennessee many people were angry and riots broke out