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prohibited state from denying citizens right to vote base on race, color, or previous services.
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(1) Blacks unable to borrow money to rent or buy land. (2) freedman forced to sign work contracts. (3) Blacks unable to testify in white courts.
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pronounced all African Americans to be US citizens (along with legal shield).
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organized to intimidate blacks and white reformers. Founded in 1867 by Nathaniel Bedford Forrest.
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Blacks forced into sharecropping due to lack of money after freed, led to debt with previous plantaion owners (unable to get out of debt or leave).
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law guaranteed equal accomidations in public places and prohibited courts from excluding African Americans from juries.
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Left south because of (1) Deteriorating race relations (2) Decunstruction of cotton by cotton boll wievel (3) job opportunities opened in northern factories.
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fire in New York City that killed 150 female factory workers. It was later found that the workers had been locked into the factory; as a result, many factory reforms were enacted
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prohibited shipment of thing made by children
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guaranteed women’s right to vote.
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Strengthn and protect civil rights in the U.S.
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Jackie Robinson
Integration in baseball
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Media stereotype of the Beat Gen
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Made a series of decisions that had a profound effect on the criminal justice system, the political system of the states, and the definition of individual rights.
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Separate schools for black students unconstitutional
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Rosa Parks bus boycott
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Foreign policy (startof theCold War)
Pres. Truman
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Nonviolent sit- ins
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Used troops to protect children integrating into public school
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outlawed major forms of discrimination against racial, ethnic, national and religious minorities, and women.
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In Watts in 1965 and in Detroit and newark in 1967, rioters struck out at symbols of white control of their communities, such as white-owned businesses
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the former Nation of Islam leader Malcolm X was shot and killed by assassins identified as Black Muslims as he was about to address the Organization of Afro-American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem.
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stating that all individuals retain the right to remain silent to avoid getting themselves in trouble at the time of arrest.
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A three day music festival that involved drugs, sex, awesome music, and lots of hippies. Represented the social culture in the 1960’s
