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The Civil Rights Bill granted citizenship and civil rights to all male persons in the United States “without distinction of race and color.”
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Hiram Revels makes an oath that states that every slave will be able to tought how to read and write and get an education
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Joesph Rainey was the first African American that was elected to the House of Representatives
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Protected the rights of Americans regardless of what race they were and now there was social equality
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More than 200 anti-lynching bills were passed throughout the House of Representatives in which they blocked these events in the south
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This outlawed discrimination in public places and prohibited employment discrimination
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On March 25, 1965, Martin Luther King addressed civil rights activists in Montgomery, Alabama, who had endured violent resistance and long days of walking on a 54-mile march from Selma, Alabama. They had marched, in part, to protest the blockage of legal voting rights for African Americans in the South