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Abolishes slavery -
Rights of citizenship, due process of law, and equal protection of the law -
Right to vote should not be denied on account of race or color (African American males right to vote) -
Founded by Booker T. Washington, "established a normal school for colored teachers". Provided students with academic and vocational training. -
Establishes "separate but equal" -
Key funder: W.E.B Du Bios. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Civil Rights organization to help fight for African American rights. -
Right to vote should not be denied on the account of sex (Women get the right to vote) -
Proposed by the National Women's political party, it was to provide for the legal equality of the sexes and prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex. Defeated in 1972 -
President Truman abolished discrimination "on the basis of race, color, religion or national origin" in the military (integrated units) -
Integrated public schools. Overturns Plessy v. Ferguson. -
Civil Rights protest in which African Americans refused to ride city buses protesting segregated seating. Key person: Rosa Parks -
Advance civil rights in non-violent manner. Key member: MLK -
Governor Orval Faubus prevented 9 African American students from entering the high school. President Eisenhower uses National Guard to protect students entry into the school. -
President Eisenhower established the Civil Rights Section of the Justice Department and empowered federal prosecutors to obtain court injunctions against interference with the right to vote -
Mexican-American civil rights movement. Artists began using the walls of city buildings, housing projects, schools, and churches to depict Mexican-American culture. -
Student political organization civil rights movement group. Used nonviolent tactics. -
Four African American students sat at a whites only lunch counter and refused to leave after being denied service, Protesting racial segregation. -
Civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern U.S. Challenged and protested local laws that ignored integration. -
in 1962 co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (later called the United Farm Workers Union). Was a Latino American civil rights activists. -
He defends the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism.