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    Civil rights

  • American civil war

    economic interests, cultural values, the power of the federal government to control the states, and, most importantly, slavery in American society.
  • Enforcement acts 1870

    people from banding together "or to go in disguise upon the public highways, or upon the premises of another" with the intention of violating citizens' constitutional
  • Civil right act of 1875

    the Civil Rights Act affirmed the “equality of all men before the law” and prohibited racial discrimination in public places and facilities such as restaurants and public transportation.
  • Rutherford B Hayes elected 1876

    oversaw the end of Reconstruction, began the efforts that led to civil service reform, and attempted to reconcile the divisions left over from the Civil War
  • Jim Crow

    Jim Crow laws and Jim Crow state constitutional provisions mandated the segregation of public schools, public places, and public transportation, and the segregation of restrooms, restaurants, and drinking fountains between white and black people.
  • Child labor

    the 1900 Census showed that over 1.75 million children between the ages of ten and fifteen were working in gainful occupations.
  • Cesar Chavez

    leader and civil rights activist. Along with Dolores Huerta, he co-founded the National Farm Workers Association, which later merged with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee to become the United Farm Workers labor union.
  • The dust bowl

    several economic and agricultural factors, including federal land policies, changes in regional weather, farm economics and other cultural factors.
  • Delores Huerta

    merged with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee to become the United Farm Workers
  • Emmett Louis till

    Emmett Till was a 14-year-old Black teenager who was abducted, beaten, and lynched by two white men in 1955. His murder galvanized the emerging civil rights movement in the United States.
  • Levittown

    the settlement was built for returning World War II veterans and is today considered one of the first mass-produced suburbs in the country.
  • Fred Hampton

    Fredrick Allen Hampton was an American activist, Marxist–Leninist and revolutionary socialist. He came to prominence in Chicago as chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party, and deputy chairman of the national BPP
  • Civil right 1957

    Congress a proposal for civil rights legislation. The new act established the Civil Rights Section of the Justice Department and empowered federal prosecutors to obtain court injunctions against interference with the right to vote.
  • Civil rights act of 1964

    prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Provisions of this civil rights act forbade discrimination on the basis of sex, as well as, race in hiring, promoting, and firing.
  • Grape and lettuce strikes 1965

    Filipino farm workers organized as the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee decided to strike against grape growers in Delano, California, to protest years of poor pay and working conditions.
  • Child labor

    At the age of 13, orphan boys were sent to apprentice in a trade while orphan girls were sent into domestic work.18 Generally, children, except those of Northern merchants and Southern plantation owners, were expected to be prepared for gainful employment.
  • Child labor

    As industrialization moved workers from farms and home workshops into urban areas and factory work, children were often preferred, because factory owners viewed them as more manageable, cheaper, and less likely to strike
  • Child labor timeline

    Child labor first became a federal legislative issue at least as far back as 1906 with the introduction of the Beveridge proposal for regulation of the types of work in which children might be engaged.
  • Child labor

    children as servants and apprentices, has been practiced throughout most of human history, but reached a zenith during the Industrial Revolution.

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