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-Amendment in the Constitution that declared no slavery in the United States
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-Granted citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the United States"
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-Granted African American men the right to vote in the United States
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-Constitutional law case for the US Supreme Court
-Upheld state racial segregation laws for public facilities -
-Orange County, California
-Challenged racial segregation in the schools -
-Topeka, Kansas
-Overturned the Plessy vs Ferguson case
-Helped the American Civil Rights movement -
-14 year old African American boy who was kidnapped and murdered
-Expanded the want for racial reform in the south
-Money Mississipi -
-Authorities arrested Rosa Parks for refusing to give up her seat on a bus
Montgomery, Alabama -
-President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Civil Rights Act of 1957 into law
-Helped to protect civil rights -
-1/4 of the Americans in the US marched to Washington D.C.
-Protested for Civil Rights -
-President John F. Kennedy was assassinated
-Dallas Texas -
-First series of race-riots in the US
-Spread the riots throughout the country -
-A large demonstration in the Civil Rights movement
-Thousands of people protested at a school to end the segregation between blacks and whites -
-Protest to black voter rights
-Dallas County, Alabama -
-A six day riot
-Added to the feud between police and the civil rights movement crowd -
-Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated
-People went crazy because their role model and leader was dead
-Added to the Civil Rights feud
-Memphis, Tennessee