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Officially outlawed slavery and involuntary servitude
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- Provided a broad definition of citizenship for African Americans.
- Prevented local governement from depriving a person from their unalienable rights.
- Equal Protection without jurisdiction.
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- Prohibited governement from denying a citizens right to vote.
- Based on race or color.
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- Upheld the States laws that requires racial segregation in public facilities.
- It was a 7 to 1 majority.
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- Prohibited any United States citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex.
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- Abolished racial segregation in the armed forces.
- Called for equal of treatment/opportunity in the Armed Services for people of all races, religions, or national origins.
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- Declared laws that established separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional.
- Paved the way for integration and the civil rights movement.
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- Became the symbol of the modern Civil Rights Movement.
- Led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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- Caused a big financial loss for the Montgomery public transit system.
- Led to laws that said, laws that required segregated buses to be unconstitutional.
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- The law is focused exclusively on voting rights.
- Prohibited against interfering with a persons right to vote for the President and members of Congress.
- Led to the Civil Rights Divison establishment.
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- The right of citizens of the United States to vote for President/Vice President, or for Senator or Rep.in Congress, shall not be denied by the United States by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.
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- Outlawed major forms of discrimination against African Americans and women, including racial segregation.
- Ended unequal application of voter registration.
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- Act is widely considered a landmark in civil-rights legislation.
- Outlawed discrimination in voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread rendering of African Americans votes in the U.S.
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- Provided equal housing opportunities regardless of race,or national origin.
