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The 13th amendment ended slavery.
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The 14th amendment granted former slaves citizenship rights.
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The fifteenth amendment granted former slaves the right to vote.
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In this case the Supreme Court ruled that separate but equal facilities was lawful. This provided states with the freedom to enforce racial segregation.
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This Supreme Court case overturned Plessy vs. Ferguson. The Supreme Court ruled that separate facilities were inherently unequal.
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Congress passed this act to outlaw discrimination based on color.
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The Voting Rights Act of 1964 outlawed practices that kept African Americans from voting.
