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A slave who lived in a free state was sent back to a slave state, but was not granted citizenship even after living in the free state for some time.
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Changed the federal legal status of more than 3.5 million enslaved African Americans in the designated areas of the South from slave to free
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Abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. In Congress.
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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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Defining national citizenship and forbidding the states to restrict the basic rights of citizens or other persons.
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Ratified in 1868, defining national citizenship and forbidding the states to restrict the basic rights of citizens or other persons.
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Upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality – a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal"
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Political organization founded in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale to challenge police brutality against the African American community.
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The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
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Becomes the first African-American player in Major League Baseball when he steps onto Ebbets Field in Brooklyn to compete for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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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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The Montgomery bus boycott 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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A group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School.
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Delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for
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The purpose of the march was to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans.
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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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Ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin, is considered one of the crowning legislative achievements of the civil rights movement.
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State and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States.
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Outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War,
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Martin Luther King led thousands of nonviolent demonstrators to the steps of the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, after a 5-day, 54-mile march from Selma, Alabama
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The National Organization for Women is an American feminist organization was started.
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Political organization founded in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale to challenge police brutality against the African American community.
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Civil rights leader, was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee
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Federal law that states: "No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.
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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