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Abolished slavery
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Rights of citizenship, due process of law, and equal protection of the law
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Right to vote should not be denied on account of race or color
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Founded by Booker T. Washington, “established a normal school for colored teachers”. Provided students with academic and vocational training.
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Establishes “Separate but equal”
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Key founder: W.E.B. Du Bois. National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People. Civil Rights organization to help
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Women's right to vote
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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.
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President Truman abolished discrimination "on the basis of race,
color, religion or national origin" in the military (integrated units) -
Integrated public schools. Overturned Plessy v Ferguson
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Civil Rights protest in which African Americans refused to ride city
buses protesting segregated seating. Key person: Rosa Parks -
Advance civil rights in a non-violent manner. Key member: MLK
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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 -
Four African American students sat at a whites only lunch counter
and refused to leave after being denied service. Protesting racial
segregation. -
Student political organization civil rights movement group. Used nonviolent tactics.
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Mexican-American civil rights movement.Artists began using the
walls of city buildings, housing projects, schools, and churches to
depict Mexican-American culture. -
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
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He called for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the
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Prohibits poll tax in elections
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LBJ outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or
national origin. It prohibits unequal application of voter registration
requirements, and racial segregation in schools, employment, and
public accommodations. -
MLK led thousands of nonviolent demonstrators to Montgomery,
Alabama where local African Americans had been campaigning for
voting rights.