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Dred Scott decision. A controversial ruling made by the Supreme Court in 1857, shortly before the outbreak of the Civil War. Dred Scott, a slave, sought to be declared a free man on the basis that he had lived for a time in a “free” territory with his master.
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The Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order issued on January 1, 1863, by President Lincoln freeing slaves in all portions of the United States not then under Union control (that is, within the Confederacy).
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abolished slavery
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Granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and slaves who have been emancipated.
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rights of passing laws of allowing racial segregation in public areas
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fighting prejudice and lynching
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women the right to vote
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Jackie Robinson Breaks the Color Barrier. A young rookie for the Brooklyn Dodgers forever changed the game of baseball on April 15, 1947. Number 42, Jackie Robinson, broke the color barrier when he took to Ebbets Field that day. Robinson was the first African-American ballplayer allowed into Major League Baseball.
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racial segregation ended in schools
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Sparked by the arrest of Rosa Parks on 1 December 1955, the Montgomery bus boycott was a 13-month mass protest that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional.
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group of black people who attended little rock central high school.
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"I Have a Dream" is a public speech that was delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963, in which he called for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United States.
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civil and economical rights
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Freedom Summer was a 1964 voter registration project in Mississippi, part of a larger effort by civil rights groups such as the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) and the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to expand black voting in the South.
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Ended segregation in public places and discrimination on the basis of race, color,religion, sex or national origin.
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enforcing laws against sex discrimination
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It was a march that Martin Luther Junior led with nonviolent people.
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stopped various devices like literature tests.
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it was a self defense thing
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legalized racial segregation.
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The killing of Martin Luther King Jr.
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it guaranteed equal legal rights for all American citizens.
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civil rights laws in the U.S
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a decision to make women choices of abortion okay.