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Compromise made at the Constitutional Convention in which slaves counted as 3/5 of a person towards both population and taxes
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Declaration of Sentiments, document, outlining the rights that American women should be entitled to as citizens, that emerged from the Seneca Falls Convention in New York.
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Court case in which the supreme court ruled that a negro whose ancestors were important to the US as slaves could not become a citizen
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Abolished Slavery in the United States
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Grants citizenship to all people born in The United States
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Grants voting rights to African Americans
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Court case in which Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People: Civil rights movement
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Citizens cannot be denied the right to vote based on the account of sex
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Court Case ruling it unconstitutional for the state of Texas to differ its authority over elections to the Democratic Party
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Abolished discrimination in the military based on race, color, religion, or national origin
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In a unanimous opinion delivered by Chief Justice Earl Warren, the Court held that the Fourteenth Amendment protects those beyond the two classes of white or Negro, and extends to other racial groups in communities depending upon whether it can be factually established that such a group exists within a community.
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Court Case in which the Supreme Court ruled Plessy v. Ferguson unconstitutional, thus ending segregation in public places.
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Group of nine black students escorted into school by the military after being denied entry by school guards
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Chavez and a group of strikers set out on a 340-mile march from Delano to Sacramento to draw attention to plight of farm workers, and during this strike the union won its first contract.
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Abolished poll tax (way of discriminating against the poor)
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Outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin
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Act prohibiting racial discrimination in voting
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Court case in which the Supreme Court held that congress could regulate the sale of private property to prevent racial discrimination
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The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund is a national non-profit civil rights organization formed in 1968 to protect the rights of Latinos in the United States.
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Reed v. Reed, 404 U.S. 71, was an Equal Protection case in the United States in which the Supreme Court ruled that the administrators of estates cannot be named in a way that discriminates between sexes.
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First proposed by the National Woman's political party in 1923, the Equal Rights Amendment was to provide for the legal equality of the sexes and prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex. More than four decades later, the revival of feminism in the late 1960s spurred its introduction into Congress.
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First proposed by the National Woman's political party in 1923, the Equal Rights Amendment was to provide for the legal equality of the sexes and prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex. More than four decades later, the revival of feminism in the late 1960s spurred its introduction into Congress.
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Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972 is a federal law that states: "No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance."
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In 1973, a case from Texas went to the Supreme Court, which ruled that MMDs could not be used to disenfranchise racial groups.
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The Oklahoma statute invidiously discriminates against men between the ages of 18 and 20 in violation of the 14th Amendment Equal Protection Clause, and was declared unconstitutional.
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The Court reasoned that illegal aliens and their children, though not citizens of the United States or Texas, are people "in any ordinary sense of the term" and, therefore, are afforded Fourteenth Amendment protections.
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Revised Statutes of the United States to declare that all persons within U.S. jurisdiction shall have the same right to take certain actions, including making and enforcing contracts, as is enjoyed by male citizens.