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Official end of slavery and freedom for both slaves and their descendants.
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Rights of citizenship, due process of law, and equal protection of the law. The 14th amendment has become one of the most used amendments in court to date regarding the equal protection clause.
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Right of African American men to vote in elections, regardless of former status of a slave.
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A man protested the color segregation on the train, court ruled that he was wrong and should have gone to the other car, saying it was fine under “separate but equal”.
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Apart of the United Farm Workers movement, organized grape boycotts to try and protest for better conditions of migrant workers.
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Ordered by Truman, it ended segregation in military and government.
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Supreme court ruled that segregation of schools was unconstitutional and that all public schools had to desegregate.
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After Rosa Parks was arrested, Montgomery buses were boycotted for a year to fight against segregation and discrimination. People would walk or carpool to get where they needed to go, which hurt the buses who weren’t earning money and couldn’t run.
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Following desegregation of schools, 9 black students enrolled at Little Rock Central HS, where there were attempts to bar their entrance by Orval Faubas. Federal government had to step in with troop escorts to maintain the decree made after Brown V Board of Education.
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Signed by Eisenhower, allowed persecution for anyone who attempted to block someone's voting rights, as well as stopping Jim Crow laws for preventing a vote.
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Students who helped advance Civil Rights movement by organizing events, protests, and sit-ins.
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Activists that rode buses to segregated cities, opposing segregation there. Often faced with violence, they persisted to fight oppression.
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After being arrested, MLK wrote a letter claiming that the nonviolent protest they had been doing was the only way to peacefully push for rights. In the letter, he addresses the natural rights of all people and the great need for equality of all US citizens.
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Prohibited poll taxes/any other taxes in stopping voting and prohibited attempts to prevent others from voting.
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Outlawed discrimination of sex, race, and color. Outlawed the unfair voting restrictions, and public segregation.
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Made voting barriers and taxes illegal, created to maintain the voting rights of African Americans and allow all people to exercise right to vote.
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The first black supreme court judge to be appointed, Thurgood worked towards equal rights and equality for all.
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Killed on April 4, 1968, he was assassinated outside of his motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
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First woman to serve on the supreme court, appointed in 1981.
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First female Hispanic supreme judge appointed in 2009.
