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This event was the prohibition of slavery. This amendment led to the guarantee that slavery would be abolished -
It gave citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and enslaved people who had been freed after the American Civil War. -
Allowed everyone to vote no matter their race. Gave everybody the right to vote no matter race, color, or previous servitude -
Trained teachers in Alabama and provided students with both academic and vocab training. Was built around giving African Americans a good education. -
The case helped the constitution of racial segregation but it included the separate but equal doctrine. -
create a mission all colored people are equal. They are doing this to ensure political, educational equality's minorities. Their goal is to remove all barriers surrounding colored people. -
The 19th amendment granted women the right to vote. -
This was proposed by the National Women's Political party where all sexes are equal no matter the circumstance. This party was against all sex discrimination -
President Truman abolished discrimination for race, color, etc, in the military -
Integrated public schools, Overturns Plessy v. Ferguson -
Civil Rights protests when African Americans refused to ride city buses to protest segregated seating. -
It was a conference created by MLK in order to have a regional organization that could better coordinate civil rights protest activities across the South. -
Governor Orval Faubus denied entry for 9 African American students entering high school, Eisenhower used national guard to protect school -
The new act established the Civil Rights Section of the Justice Department and empowered federal prosecutors to obtain court injunctions against interference with the right to vote -
Four African American students protested segregation by sitting at and all-white lunch table and refused to leave after being denied service -
SNCC coordinated youth-led nonviolent, direct-action campaigns against segregation and other forms of racism -
Mexican American civil rights movement. Artists used building in cities to depict Mexican American culture -
Freedom Riders were groups of white and African American civil rights activists who participated in Freedom Rides in the south protesting local segregation laws -
Was a civil rights activist and co-founded the national farm workers association
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He defends non violent resistance to racism
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A call for equality and freedom, the speech became one of the defining moments of the civil rights movement as well as one of the most iconic speeches in American history.
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Prohibits the poll tax in elections
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
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They marched to ensure that African Americans could exercise their constitutional right to vote
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LBJ stopped the discriminatory voting practices used in many southern states after the civil war
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Founded in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale to challenge police brutality against the African American community
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He was a lawyer for the NAACP that argued for Brown v. Board of Ed appointed by LBJ. First African American to be on the Supreme Court
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James Earl Ray killed MLK in Memphis, TN outside his hotel room
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A movement that sought to end American Indian harassment and racism against Natives
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The first female justice in the supreme court, changed gender rights and was appointed by Reagan
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First appointed Mexican American to the supreme court, fought for same-sex marriage and was Appointed by Obama