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Declares that no one can be denied the right to vote because of their race.
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Guaranteed black patrons the right to ride trains and use public facilities.
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Happened when Crazy Horse and at least 2,000 fellow indians fought General George Custer and his 250 men, resulting in all 251 deaths.
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Prohibited immigration by Chinese laborers, limited the civil rights of Chinese immigrants already in the United States, and forbade the naturalization of Chinese residents.
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The act was extended for another 10 years.
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Colorado becomes the first state to grant women the right to vote.
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The Supreme Court case established the " separate but equal " doctrine.
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is founded by W.E.B Du Bois, Jane Addams, John Dewey and others. It was founded to confront civil rights issues and partly because of the lynchings.
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Rep. Jeannette Rankin becomes the first women elected to congress.
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Gives women the right to vote.
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The Supreme Court denied Japanese residents the right to naturalization because they were ineligible for citizenship as were foreign - born Chinese.
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The act keeps any " aliens ineligible to citizenship " from entering the United States.
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Granting American citizenship to Native Americans.
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Japanese American Citizens League is founded because of continuing discrimination against Japanese in the United States.
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The league of United Latin American Citzens is founded to fight discrimination, help Latinos and protest segregation, killings and other abuses.
