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13th Amendment
The Thirteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution it was agenst the law to have slaves and involuntary servises except as punishment for a crime. The Fourteenth Amendment was designed to grant citizenship to and protect the civil liberties of recently freed slaves.The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits each government in the United States from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, and colo. All these three things were needed. -
Jackie robinson
An American baseball player who became the first black Major League Baseball (MLB) player of the modern era.[1] Robinson broke the baseball color linewhen he debuted with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. As the first black man to play in the major leagues since the 1880s, he was instrumental in bringing an end to racial segregation in professional baseball, which had relegated black players to the Negro leagues for six decades. -
Martin luther king Jr.
born Michael Luther King, Jr., but later had his name changed to Martin. His grandfather began the family's long reign as pastors of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, serving from 1914 to 1931. He delivered his famous "I Have A Dream" speech in 1963, and he was awarded the Nobel Piece Price for being the leader in the African-American discrimination movement. he was assasinated April 4th 1968 -
Emmit Till
14 year old African-American boy who was murdered in Mississippis after reportedly flirting with a white woman. He was from Chicago, visiting his relatives in Mississsippi when he spoke to 21-year-old Carolyn Bryant. Bryant's husband Roy and his half-brother Milam arrived at Till's great-uncle's house where they beat him and gouged out one of his eyes in a barn. then they shot im in the head and disposed of the body with a 70 pound cotton gin fan tied around his neck with barbed wire. -
24th Amendment
The Twenty-fourth Amendment prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax. The amendment was proposed by Congress to the states on August 27, 1962. Poll taxes appeared in southern states after Reconstruction as a measure to prevent African Americans from voting. And had been held to be constitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States in the 1937. -
The Black Panthers
The Panthers practiced militant self-defense of minority communities against the U.S. government. And fought to establish revolutionary socialism through mass organizing and community based programs.The Party's ideals and activities were so radical, it was at one time assailed by FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover as "the greatest threat to the internal security of the United States." -
Marcus Garvey
He was a Jamaican publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a staunch proponent of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, to which end he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL). He founded the Black Star Line, part of the Back-to-Africa movement, which promoted the return of the African Diaspora to their ancestral lands.
