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The Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 freed the slaves . Issued by President Lincoln
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13th Amendment abolished slavery. In the Southern states however, were able to bring back slavery era codes. The codes created places where blacks could live,work, and be apart of society.
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The 14th Amendment gave African Americans due process and equal protection under the law.
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Former slaves and all blacks were given the rights to vote by the 15th Amendment.
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In 1892 Homer Plessy was arrested for sitting in a white car. Homer in Louisiana could easily pass for a white man because of his skin complexion.
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The NAACP ( The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ) was founded by Ida Wells-Barnett , W.E.B Dubious, and four others .Not all of these people were black.
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This is one of the greatest decisions in the 20th century made by the supreme court. It was said that the segregation in public schools violated the 14th Amendment.
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Emmett Till was kidnapped on the 27th of August because he was accused of whistling at a white woman . He was beaten and tortured , shot , and dropped in the Tallahatchie River in Mississippi.
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On December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat for a white bus passenger. This incident lead to her arrest and the Montgomery bus boycott.
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In Birmingham , Alabama, four girls were at a Sunday school at sixteenth Street Baptist Church when a bomb exploded and killed all four girls.
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On the 23rd of January , the 24th Amendment abolished poll tax . It was already in 11 southern states . This made it difficult for blacks to vote.
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On the 2nd of July , the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed by President Johnson . This act prohibited all racial , color , religion discrimination.
