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13th amendment
- Abolish Slavery
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14th amendment
- Grant citizenship to former slaves
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Sharecropping
- Landowner allows tenant to use the land in return for a share of crops produced on their portion land.
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15th amendment
- Black male suffrage, right to vote
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Jim Crow laws
- Segregation of public schools, places, transport restrooms, restaurant and drinking fountain for whites & blacks
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Plessy V. Ferguson
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Lynching
- Kill (Someone), especially by hanging, for an alleged offense with or without a legal trail.
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19th amendment
- Any sex should have the right to vote
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Civil Disobedience
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20th Amendment
- Terms of president & vice. President ends at noon January 20th
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Hector P. Govera
- Mexican- American and also a world war II veternan founder of the American G.I Forum
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Brown V. Board of education
- Law that established separate public schools for black & white students to be unconstitutional.
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Rosa Parks
- Activist in the civil rights movement.
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Orville Faubus
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
- Protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on public transit system.
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Civil Rights Act of 1957
- Primary a voting rights bill was the first federal civil rights legislation passed by the u.s congress.
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Nonviolent protest
- Achieving goals such as social change through symbolic protests
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Sit- Ins
- One or more people occupying an area for a protest
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Affirmation Action
- Policy favoring those who tend to suffer from discrimination , especially in relation to employment or education .
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Cesar Chavez
- American labor leader & civil rights activist who co-founded the National farm workers association ini 1962
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Martin Luther King Jr.
- American baptist minister & activist who became the most visible spokesperson & leader in the civil rights movement.
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Betty Friedan
- American writer, activist and feminist, leading figure in women's movement in U.S
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24th Amendment
- Prohibits congress & state from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or others types of tax
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
- Outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin
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Voting Rights Act of 1965
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Thurgood Marshall
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Lester Madox
- American politician who served as the 75th governor of the U.S state of Georgia
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George Wallace
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26th Amendment
- Citizens that are 18 year olds can vote
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Title IX (a)
- No person shall, on the basis of sex, denied beridfit of or subjected to discrimination.
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Desegregation
- The ending of a policy of racial segregation