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was the first United States federal law to define citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law.
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Granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States, this included formerly enslaved person, they were able to get equal rights under the law.
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Protected the rights of citizens in the United States, to vote regardless of race, color, or cultural background/ previous occupation
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the first federal women's suffrage amendment was introduced but was soundly defeated later in the first full Senate vote
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"decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine"
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their mission is to ensure the political, educational, equality of minority group citizens of States and eliminate race prejudice.
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prohibits the unites states and its states from denying the right to vote on the basis of sex.
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"held that restrictive covenants in real property deeds which prohibited the sale of property to non-Caucasians unconstitutionally violate the equal protection provision of the Fourteenth Amendment."
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The decision declared that separate educational facilities for white and African American students were inherently unequal.
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Rosa Parks refused to give her seat up to a white man on the bus, this resulted to her arrest and the rise in the Civil Rights movement of the 60's
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prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin
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an organization of women who were dedicated to actively challenging sex discrimination in all areas of American society.
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a “freedom-of-choice” provision in a Virginia school board's desegregation plan was unacceptable
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upheld busing programs that aimed to speed up the racial integration of public schools in the United States.
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amended the state constitution to prohibit state governmental institutions from considering race, sex, or ethnicity,