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Amendment that made slavery unlawful except in prisons
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Gave every citizen a right to vote regardless of skin color or race except women.
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An idea for an African American school in the city of Tuskegee
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separated blacks and whites while keeping facilities equal. -
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People -
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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Executive order by President Harry S. Truman which provided equal opportunity for everyone in the military despite the race
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Civil rights protest by African Americans who refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama to protest segregated seating. -
Commission on Civil Rights to investigate civil rights violations and also established a Civil Rights Division within the Department of Justice.
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Chicano civil rights movement for extending the Mexican American goal of reaching empowerment. -
Civil Rights Activists who rode an interstate bus into the south and challenge Morgan V Virginia
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Said that people should have moral responsibilities and take direct actions rather than wait for justice in courts. -
Speech by Martin Luther King in Washington D.C about economic rights and end to racism. -
Right of citizens to vote in any primary or other election. -
Prohibits discrimination on bases of race, color, religion, sex or country of origin and forbids hiring, promoting or firing on bases of discrimination. -
Signed by President Lyndon Johnson an act which outlawed discriminatory voting practices -
Black panther party for Self Defense a revolutionary organization with the ideology of black nationalism, socialism and armed self defense.
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Movement found to improve recently urbanized Native Americas and bring restoration to tribal sovereignty and treaty rights. -
Martin Luther King was assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis, TN -
First hispanic and latina member of the court.
