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granted equal protection to african americans and was one of the three amendments passed to abolish slavery.
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Gave blacks the right to vote
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The case that was fought over separate but equal.
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The young white people were not allowing young blacks in school with them so the president at the time intervened and had troops walk them to and from school.
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By not giving up her seat to a white man she was arrested and this began a very big thing in the civil rights movement
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the Montgomery Bus Boycott was a civil-rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating. The boycott took place from December 5, 1955, to December 20, 1956, and is regarded as the first large-scale U.S.
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The March on Washington was a massive protest march that occurred in August 1963, when some 250,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Also known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the event aimed to draw attention to continuing challenges and inequalities faced by African Americans a century after emancipation.
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Equal employment for all people.
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In the predominantly black Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, racial tension reaches a breaking point after two white policemen scuffle with a black motorist suspected of drunken driving. A crowd of spectators gathered near the corner of Avalon Boulevard and 116th Street to watch the arrest and soon grew angry by what they believed to be yet another incident of racially motivated abuse by the police.
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prevented discrimination and allowed anyone to leave anywhere.
