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This amendment ended slavery and presented a whole new opportunity for African Americans to have a say in their future. -
Rights of citizenship, due process of law, and equal protection of the law. The 14th amendment has become one of the most used amendments in court to date regarding the equal protection clause. -
The right to vote should not be denied based on skin color, ultimately giving African American males the right to vote. -
The Tuskegee Institute was created by Booker T. Washington to provide education towards African American citizens while providing academic and vocational training. -
This court case established "separate but equal" which allowed for more segregation and little progress in the civil rights movement. -
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, founded by W.E.B Du Bois, was created to help fight for African American rights. -
The 19th amendment granted the women of America the right to vote. -
The Equal Rights Amendment, proposed by the National Women's political party, provided equality amongst all sexes and to diminish discrimination on the basis of sex. It was defeated in 1972. -
President Truman abolished discrimination "on the basis of race, color, religion or national origin" in the military. -
This court case overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and integrated public schools. -
Rosa Parks was a key advocate in this Civil Rights protest in which African Americans refused to ride city buses protesting segregated seating which lasted until 1956. -
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference was helped formed by MLK to advance civil rights in a non-violent manner. -
The first high school in the south to integrate 4 years after the supreme court ruled segregation unconstitutional. Governor Orval Faubus prevented 9 African American students from entering the school. President Eisenhower used National Guard to protect the 9 students. -
It authorized the federal government to take legal measures to prevent a citizen from being denied voting rights. This was a stepping stone for more legislative action to come and helped increase the amount of black voters in the south. -
As a way to protest racial segregation, four African American students sat at a whites only lunch counter and refused to leave after being denied service. -
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was created as a student political organization civil rights movement group to use nonviolent tactics to fight for equality. -
In this Mexican-American civil rights movement, artists began using the walls of city buildings, housing projects, schools, and churches to depict Mexican-American culture. -
Freedom Riders were groups of white and African American civil rights activists who participated in bus trips through the American South in 1961 to protest segregated bus terminals. The Riders were successful in convincing the Federal Government to enforce federal law for the integration of interstate travel. -
He was a Latino American civil rights activist who co-founded the National Farm Workers Association, also known as the United Farm Workers Union. -
In this letter he defends the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism which heavily contributed to the civil rights movement.