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-Abolished most forms of slavery (except as punishment for a crime)
-Important because it finally freed the people who had been enslaved -
-Granted citizenship to all people born in the U.S.
-Important because it gave citizenship to former slaves who had been freed -
-Granted African American men the right to vote
-Important because it was a step towards justice for racial inequality -
The Jim Crow Laws were laws of segregation between people of color and white people. Opposition to these laws brought about a major civil rights movement, to prove that "separate but equal" is not true equality.
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U.S. Supreme Court Case that upheld state racial segregation laws as "separate but equal
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-Federal Court Case that challenged racial segregation in schools in Orange County, CA
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- U.S. Supreme Court case which declared racial segregation of schools to be unconstitutional.
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-Political protest against the policy of racial segregation in buses in Montgomery, Alabama.
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-Nine black students enroll in and attend Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas
-Landmark event following the ruling that segregation in schools is unconstitutional -
-MLK delivers his famous speech at the March on Washington, a massive rally for a civil rights bill.