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Taking advantage of the former slaves' desire to own their own farms
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laws passed by Democrat-controlled Southern states after the Civil War which restricted african americans freedom
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upheld the state racial segregation laws for public facilities under the doctrine of ,separate but equal
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state and local laws which enforced racial segregation in the Southern U.S.
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first African-American justice of the Supreme Court. Judge, Civil Rights Activist, Supreme Court Justice, Lawyer. helped win the brown v. board of education
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American politician who served as 36th Governor of Arkansas from 1955 to 1967
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activist in the Civil Rights Movement, whom the United States Congress called "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement"
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Mexican-American physician, surgeon, World War II veteran, civil rights advocate, and founder of the American G.I. Forum.
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and example of desegregation would be like the brown v board of education how they mad the schools equal instead of keeping deferent religions and ethnicity separate
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her book The Feminine Mystique (1963)
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American Baptist minister, activist who became a visible spokesperson/leader in the Civil Rights Movement. famous for i have a dream
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Trinidadian-American who became a prominent figure in the Civil Rights Movement and the global Pan-African movement. He grew up in the United States from the age of 11 and became an activist while he attended Howard University.
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The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States that played a pivotal role for African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement.
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refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government 1950s - 1960s
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The supreme court ruled the racial segregation of children in public schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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"African-American Civil Rights" era, the predominant use of protest was nonviolent, or peaceful. ... During the 1950s and 1960s, the nonviolent protesting of the Civil Rights Movement caused definite tension, which gained national attention.
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hanging someone with or without trial
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14 year old who was tortured shot and hung for "saying" bye baby to a white lady on the way out of a store
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a seminal event in the Civil Rights Movement, was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama
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The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) is an African-American civil rights organization. SCLC, which is closely associated with its first president, Martin Luther King Jr, had a large role in the American Civil Rights Movement.
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a voting rights bill, was the first federal civil rights legislation passed by the United States Congress since the Civil Rights Act of 1875
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The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957.
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nonviolent protests in Greensboro, N.C, in 1960. led to the Woolworth department store removing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States
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ensure that applicants are employed and that employees are treated during employment without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin.
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rode interstate buses to the segregated southern U.S, in 1961 and subsequent years, in order to challenge non-enforcement u.s
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American labor leader and civil rights activist who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association in 1962.
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University of Mississippi in Oxford locals, students, and segregationists gathered to protest the enrollment of James Meredith, a black Air Force veteran attempting to integrate the all-white school.
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an American politician and the 45th Governor of Alabama, having served two nonconsecutive terms and two consecutive terms as a Democrat. wanted segregations
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The Stand in the Schoolhouse Door took place at Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama
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for Jobs and Freedom, the March on Washington, or The Great March on Washington, was held in Washington, D.C.
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outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin
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prohibits racial discrimination of voting
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an African-American motorist was arrested for suspicion of drunk driving
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black nationalist and socialist organization founded by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton
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American politician served as the 75th Governor of the U.S. state of Georgia. he refused to serve colored people in his restaurant he owned
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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." ninth amendment
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abolished slavery in the U.S. forever.
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The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
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Stated that everyone born or naturalized in the U.S. was a citizen & was entitled to equal protection of the law.
