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Issued by Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves in the Confederacy. Abraham Lincon believe that every man should be born equal and treated equally therfore slaves had to be free and slavery had to be abolished.
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The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery. It read that nowhere in the United States or within its jurisdiction were able to keep slaves.
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The Civil Rights Act passes by one vote. This act proclaims that all persons born in the United States are U.S citizens without regard to race or color.
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"No state shall make or enforce any law which denies to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." Basically meaning everyone is born equal and should be treated equal.
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The NWSA was formed to persue equal rights for women, including the right to vote.
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The 15th amendment read that no state in the United States should deny a man to vote because of their color, race or whether they had been fornally in slavery before.
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The Plessy V. Ferguson is a US supreme court decision deciding the law about racial segregation in public facilities like, Toilet, waiting rooms etc...
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The NAACP is found in NYC for the purpose of improving the conditions of colored people.
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First world war takes away some of the human rights interest.
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The 19th Amendment granted womens to vote.
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The laws that were added after the great depression focuses on the relief of the unemployed and poor.
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It was a case held in the Supreme Court declaring state laws establishing speration of white's and colored's public school.
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Fourteen year old African American, Emmett Till was kidnapped while visiting his family in Mississippi. He was brutally beaten, shot and was dumped into the Tallahatchie River. The killers were aquited by a fully white jury and then were bragging about the killing afterwards in a national magazine. This brought the inequality between white and black people in certain states into the media spotlight and kickstarted the civil rights movement.
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Rosa Park refused to give up her seat at the front of the "colored" section of the bus to a white passenger. It launched a bus boycott.
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1963, Martin Luther King JR gave his most famous speech. "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." It is one of the largest rallies in human rights history and makes Martin Luther King JR a household name around the world.
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The Civil RIghts Act prohibited any discrimination because of race, color, religion or national origin. The Jim Crow laws in the South were abolished.
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