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Its Citizenship Clause provides a broad definition of citizenship
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prohibits each government in the United States from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude"
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a "separate but equal" status for African Americans. The separation in practice led to conditions for African Americans that tended to be inferior to those provided for white Americans
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United States Supreme Court decision in the jurisprudence of the United States, upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal".
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An African-American civil rights organization.Its mission is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination.
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prohibits any United States citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex.
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created to combat the discrimination that Hispanics face in the United States
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s a United States government agency created as part of the National Housing Act of 1934. It insured loans made by banks and other private lenders for home building and home buying.
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Encompass several social welfare and social insurance programs.
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a U.S. civil rights organization that played a pivotal role for African-Americans in the Civil Rights Movement
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federal court case that challenged racial segregation ,held that the segregation of Mexican and Mexican American students into separate "Mexican schools" was unconstitutional.
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the suit charged segregation of Mexican children from other white races without specific state law and in violation of the attorney general's opinion
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was a U.S. Supreme Court case that successfully challenged the "separate but equal" doctrine of racial segregation established by the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson. The case was influential in the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education four years later.
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was a worldwide political movement for equality before the law, change by nonviolent forms of resistance. In some situations it was accompanied, or followed, by civil unrest and armed rebellion. lead to improvements in the legal rights of previously oppressed groups of people.
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state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional
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case that decided that Mexican Americans and all other racial groups in the United States had equal protection under the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution
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was an African-American civil rights activist, Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order that she give up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger
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a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama
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She advocated for expanded roles for women in the workplace, the civil rights of African Americans and Japanese Americans, and the rights of World War II refugees.
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He is best known for his 1957 stand against the desegregation of the Little Rock School District
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primarily a voting rights bill, was the first civil rights legislation enacted by Congress in the United States since Reconstruction following the American Civil War
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An African-American civil rights organization. SCLC was closely associated with its first president, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The SCLC had a large role in the American Civil Rights Movement.
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Was an American politician and a leader of the Civil Rights movement. She was the first African American elected to the Texas Senate
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a set of domestic programs in the United States announced by President Lyndon B. Johnson at Ohio University and subsequently promoted by him and fellow Democrats in Congress in the 1960s.
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Was one of the organizations of the American Civil Rights Movement.
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This union changed from a workers' rights organization that helped workers get unemployment insurance to that of a union of farmworkers almost overnight
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A leading figure in the Women's Movement in the United States, her 1963 book The Feminine Mystique is often credited with sparking the second wave of American feminism in the 20th century
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he was responsible for designing the "Great Society" legislation that included laws that upheld civil rights, public broadcasting, Medicare, Medicaid, environmental protection, aid to education, and his "War on Poverty.
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was one of the largest political rallies for human rights in United States history and called for civil and economic rights for African Americans
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he was really into segregation ..."In the name of the greatest people that have ever trod this earth, I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever"
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prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax
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A piece of legislation in the United States[1] that outlawed major forms of discrimination against racial, ethnic, national and religious minorities, and women.
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national legislation in the United States that outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African Americans in the U.S
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a program of the United States Department of Health and Human Services that provides comprehensive education, health, nutrition, and parent involvement services to low-income children and their families
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a national social insurance program, administered by the U.S. federal government since 1965, that guarantees access to health insurance for Americans ages 65 and older and younger people with disabilities as well as people with end stage renal disease
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is a federally funded educational program within the United States
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dvancement of women. The organization consists of 550 chapters in all 50 U.S. states
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was an African-American revolutionary socialist organization
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was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, serving from October 1967 until October 1991. Marshall was the Court's 96th justice and its first African-American justice.
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deals with succession to the Presidency and establishes procedures both for filling a vacancy in the office of the Vice President
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known as positive discrimination in the United Kingdom, refers to policies that take factors including "race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or national origin" into consideration in order to benefit an underrepresented group "in areas of employment, education, and business".
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Was a Mexican-American physician, surgeon, World War II veteran, civil rights advocate, and founder of the American G.I. Forum
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leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience
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Native American activist organization in the United States, founded in 1968 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with an agenda that focuses on spirituality, leadership, and sovereignty
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the practice of achieving goals through symbolic protests, civil disobedience, economic or political noncooperation, and other methods, without using violence
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Petitioners, three public school pupils in Des Moines, Iowa, were suspended from school for wearing black armbands to protest the Government's policy in Vietnam
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Was an American farm worker, labor leader and civil rights activist, who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association
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Is a labor leader and civil rights activist who, along with César Chávez, co-founded the National Farmworkers Association, later became the United Farm Workers (UFW).
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An American political party centered on Chicano nationalism
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barred the states or federal government from setting a voting age higher than eighteen.
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No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance...
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A form of prtest where physical action is taken
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citing discrimination against students in poor school districts.
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is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States,and its third female justice. She is also the third person of color to sit on the Court.
