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ratified in 1865, abolishing slavery and involuntary servitude in the United States. providing that "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."
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Passed by the Senate on 1866 and rectified two years later on July 9, 1868. It granted citizenship to all persons "born or naturalized in the United States," even formerly enslaved people, and provided all citizens with “equal protection under the law''
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Passed by Congress on Feb 26, 1869, and ratified Feb 3, 1870, it granted African-American men the right to vote. And should not be denied or abridged by any state or United States because of race, color.
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Plessy V. Ferguson was landmark U.S supreme court decision establishing the ''separate but equal'' doctrine. were a mixed-race man, refused to sit in a car for Black people on a Louisiana train, violating Louisiana's Separate Car Act of 1890. leading to the ruling that racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution as long as the facilities for each race were equal in quality.
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Wilmington Coup was a ''race riot'' on Nov 10, that was carried out by white supremacists in Wilmington, on a local black-owned newspaper for making a news paper that talked about the possibility of white woman wanting a relationship with a black man.
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it was established in Feb, 1909 in New York City from an American civil rights organization, that fought for the civil and political rights of African Americans, in response to the increasing violence and racism they faced.
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it was were president Harry S. Truman signed Executive Order 9981, ending racial segregation in the U.S. military, mandating equality of treatment and opportunity for all service members regardless of race, color, religion, or national origin.
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A landmark 1954 Supreme Court case, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. were the court unanimously ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional, effectively overturning the "separate but equal" doctrine established in Plessy v. Ferguson.
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Rosa Parks was a seamstress and civil rights activist,
who was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a pivotal event in the Civil Rights Movement.
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is a story of a Black boy from Chicago who was brutally murdered in Mississippi after allegedly whistling at a white woman in a store. His killers, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, kidnapped, beat, and shot him and then dumped his body in the Tallahatchie River.
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it was were nine African American students, in 1957,
who became the first to attend Little Rock Central High School after the Supreme Court ruled segregated schools unconstitutional, facing intense resistance and becoming symbols of the Civil Rights Movement.
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A new act that established the Civil Rights Section of the Justice Department and empowered federal prosecutors to obtain court injunctions against interference with the right to vote.
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A Civil Rights Movement that began on Feb 1, 1960, were four Black students from North Carolina AT University sat at a "whites-only" lunch counter at a Woolworth's store in Greensboro, NC, refusing to leave after being denied service, sparking a nationwide movement.
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Freedom rides was bus trips organized by civil rights activists in 1961 to test compliance with Supreme Court rulings that banned segregation in interstate travel, facing violence and arrests as they challenged Jim Crow laws in the South.
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it was a Civil Rights Movement, with Martin Luther King Jr.'s iconic "I Have a Dream" speech, advocating for racial equality and economic justice.
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it was a moment in the Civil Rights Movement, were there was three marches in 1965 aimed at securing voting rights for African Americans in Alabama, culminating in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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it was a landmark civil rights and labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex.
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it was a landmark piece of federal legislation, that prohibited racial discrimination in voting.
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Martin Luther King was assassinated while standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. shot by James Earl Ray, who fired a single shot that caused severe wounds to King's face and neck.
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a landmark supreme court case that upheld the use of busing as a means to achieve school desegregation, affirming that made public schools to bus students of different races.
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How did the goals, strategies, and leadership within the civil rights movement evolve between 1900 and 1978? : The plessy V. Ferguson evolved from focusing on legal challenges and gradual change to direct action and mass mobilization.
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How did the goals, strategies, and leadership within the civil rights movement evolve between 1900 and 1978? : The little rock nine evolved from legal challenges and lobbying to direct action.
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How did the goals, strategies, and leadership within the civil rights movement evolve between 1900 and 1978? : the 13th amendment shifted a focus on legal challenges and gradual progress to more direct, public activism and broader demands for equality.
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How did the goals, strategies, and leadership within the civil rights movement evolve between 1900 and 1978? : it shifted from a focus on legal challenges and incremental progress to mass, nonviolent demonstrations and broader demands for equality across various aspects of life.
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How did the goals, strategies, and leadership within the civil rights movement evolve between 1900 and 1978? : shifting from a focus on legal challenges and gradual progress to more direct, which expanded access to voting for African Americans.