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Ends Slavery unless it some kind of punishment for a crime.However Black Codes existed that still oppressed African Americans.
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Black Codes were laws passed in the South 1865-1866 after the Civil War. Restricted African Americans freedoms and made sure they could only make low wages.
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Allows African Americans to become US citizens. Required states provide equal protection under the law. Many southern didn't recognize the ammendment.
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Imported to South Carolina from Tennessee during SC election campaign and the KK murdered 8 blacks, 2 of which were state congressmen.
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Black males were allowed to vote. The southern states were still using discriminating voting practices,
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The phrase "Jim Crow Law" can be found as early as 1892 in the title of a New York Times article about voting laws in the South
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All white jury convicts man for the murder of 7 white woman and he was brutally lynched outside of the court room, whipped over 230 times until one of his vertabrae snapped. A crowd gathered to watch as he was chained to a car and brutally beaten and burned alive.
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A group of white racists attck and kill Phillipino farm workers and leave signs on dead bodies. They were mad because they had danced with white woman.
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A 19 year old black man accused of rape by white sharecroppers. People of both races questioned the womans claim. The National Guard was called but he was lynched anyway as the crowd fought the National Guard.
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In Marion, Indiana a town famous for having lots of KKK members a group of black teens were accused of sexual assault and the mob lynched and killed 2 of them with no trial.
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A member of the KK Robert C Byrd was voted leader of the KKK and was elected as a Senator in 1959.
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A 14 year old African American was executed in the electric chair for supposedly kidnapping two white girls, but no evidence was presented to support it.
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A man was lynched in Mississippi. He was charged with raping a white pregnant woman. Again no trial or proof was offered.
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Researchers announce that a polio vaccine is developed by trying it out on a african american prisoners without their families consent or knowledge.
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Riots erupt in Tampa Florida after police kill an unarmed black teen. Martin Chambers 19 was killed which set off 3 days of riots. He was suspected of robbing a store. He was shot in the back when the teen would not stop running, the officer said he aimed for the teens shoulder.
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Black male arrested for putting up a campaign poster, attorney was arrested for unlawful interference when he tried to stop police from harrassing a black man who was selling an alternative newspaper, a judge had a civil rights attonrey arrested, harrassed also for having a black secretary.
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A cow ranch worker was shot supposedly by African American Teens. Police charged them all with murder and sought death penalty. The confession they gave was forced and they were not guilty.
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A black teenager was randomly abducted and brutally killed members of the KKK. His mother sued the KKK and won 7 million dollars.
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Surrounded by officers and beaten after a high speed chase, after King was already down on the ground he was continually beaten.
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KKK Rally happens in NYC up against 6,000 protesters and 2,000 tourists.
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Trayvon Benjamin Martin was a 17-year-old African American from Miami Gardens, Florida, who was fatally shot by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer, in Sanford, Florida.
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A black teen was shot by a man because he felt threatened by Davis and friends playing loud music from their car.
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KKK sues Georgia because they wanted to adopt a stretch of highway and they were denied.
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A young black man was clearly murdered but the police ruled his death "No foul play".
