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    civil rights movement

  • rights are compromised

    rights are compromised
    Political framing of US Constitution compromised the rights of african americans
  • Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks
    First major crisis in Montgomery Alabama when Rosa Parks wouldnt move to the back of the bus
  • civil rights act

    civil rights act
    The first major accomplishment came with a pssage of the Civil Rights act
    - it was a voting rights bill, it had been the first civil rights legislation that was allowed by Congress in the United States.
  • eisenhower

    Eisenhower signed into Law the civil rigts act which dealt with the issue of voting rights
  • national issue

    the Civil Rights act became the leading national domestic issue
  • major rights

    major rights
    the civil rights included major laws, such as
    -outlawing discrimination based off of race, color, religion, sex/gender or national origin
  • passed rights

    the congress passed the Voting Rights Act
    -it prohibits racial discriminantion during voting
  • fair housing

    the fair housing act prohibited racial discrimination in the rental andsale housing areas throughout the nation.
    -qual housing regardless of their race or national origin