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was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court held that the U.S. Constitution was not meant to include American citizenship for black people
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was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863.
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abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
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the amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws and was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves following the American Civil War.
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prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude".
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was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court issued in 1896
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in 1909 by an interracial group consisting of W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida Bell Wells-Barnett, Mary White Ovington, and others concerned with the challenges facing African Americans, especially in the wake of the 1908 Springfield (Illinois) Race Riot.
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prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex.
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An amendment for everyone to have the same rights no matter the sex.
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Jackie Robinson was the first Negro baseball player.
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was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that American state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality.
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was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama
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was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957.
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is a public speech that was delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr.
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was held in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, August 28, 1963.
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was a volunteer campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi.
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is a landmark civil rights and labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin
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were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States.
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is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting.
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were three protest marches, held in 1965, along the 54-mile highway from Selma, Alabama to the state capital of Montgomery
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is an American feminist organization founded in 1966.
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originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, was a political organization founded by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton in October 1966 in Oakland, California
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an American clergyman and civil rights leader, was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968, at 6:01 p.m. CST. He was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital, where he died at 7:05 p.m.
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is a federal civil rights law in the United States of America that was passed as part of the Education Amendments of 1972.
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is a landmark decision issued in 1973 by the United States Supreme Court on the issue of the constitutionality of laws that criminalized or restricted access to abortions.