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end of slavery signed by Abraham Lincoln
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garunteeing African Americans citezenship and its priviliges signed by President Andrew Johnson
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Granted African American males the right to vote Signed by pesident Ulysses S. Grant
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States could now constitiutionaly provide segregated facilities for African Americans, so long as they were equal to those afforded white persons.
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Abolished poll tax & the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibited racial discrimination in employment and education and outlawed racial segregation in public facilities.
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Challenged racial segregation on Orange County, California schools.
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Delgado vs. Bastrop is a court case which prohibited the segregation of Mexican-Americans in Texas illegal
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President Truman issued Executive Order 9981 establishing equality of treatment and opportunity in the Armed Services. This historic document can be viewed here.
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case that successfully challenged the "separate but equal" doctrine of racial segregation established by the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson.
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Court declared state based laws establishing seperate public schools for black and white student to be unconstitutional. This overturned Plessy vs Ferguson which allowed state- sponsored segregation.
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case that decided that Mexican Americans and all other racial groups in the United States had equal protection under the 14th Amendment
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primarily a voting rights bill, first civil rights bill passed by Congress Signed by Dwight D. Eisenhower
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outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. ended racial segregation Signed by Lyndon B. Johnson
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prohibits racial discrimination in voting, designed to enforce the voting rights guaranteed by the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments Sigend by Lyndon B. Johnson
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concerning public school finance
