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The 13th amendment made slavery unlawful expect in prisons.
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The 15th amendment gave every citizen a right top vote regardless of their skin color or race however this excluded women. It also abolished the 3/5 slavery system where an African American's vote only counted for 3/5th of a vote.
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The Tuskegee Institute was an African American school in the city of Tuskegee and helped start an institution to help educate African kids irrespective of the segregation they experienced.
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The verdict for this case separated blacks and whites while keeping the facilities equal. The verdict was a landmark 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the "separate but equal" doctrine.
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W.E.B. Du Bois, Mary Ovington, Moorefield Storey and Ida B. Wells.
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The 19th amendment stated that the rights of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. This meant that women could now vote.
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This executive order signed by President Harry S. Truman provided equal opportunity for everyone in the military irrespective of their race.
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Civils rights protest by African Americans who refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama to protest segregates seating. It was a seminal event in the civil rights movement in the United States.
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Commissions on civil rights to investigate civil rights violations and also establish a Civil Rights Division within the DOJ.
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Chicano civil rights movement for extending the Mexican American goal of reaching empowerment.
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Civil Rights activists who rode an interstate bus into the south to challenge Morgan vs Virginia. The passenger sin the bus were Freedom Riders, among the first of more than 400 volunteers who traveled throughout the South on regularly scheduled buses for seven months in 1961 to test a 1960 Supreme Court decision that declared segregates facilities for interstate passengers illegal.
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The letter stated that people should have moral responsibilities and take direct actions rather than wait for justice in courts.
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Speech by MLK in Washington D.C. about economic rights to and end to racism.
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The 24th Amendment granted citizens the rights to vote in any primary or other election. It prohibits both the Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of taxes.
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Prohibits discrimination on bases races, color, religion, sex, or country of origin and forbids hiring, promoting, or firing on bases of discrimination.
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Signed by Lyndon B. Johnson and was an act that outlawed discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting.
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Black Panther party for self defense ~ a revolutionary organization with the ideology of black nationalism, socialism, and armed self defense.
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Movement found to improve recently urbanized Native Americans and bring restoration to tribal sovereignty and treaty rights.
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Martin Luther King was assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Sonia Sotomayor was the first Hispanic member of the United States Supreme Court.