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The abolishment of racial segregation, which happened due to the work of Civil Rights leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Sharecropping was a system used on southern farms after the civil war in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops. While tenant farming was a system of farming in which a person rents land to farm from a planter.
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Abolition of slavery: Slavery is not allowed in any state or territory under the government of the U.S.A.
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Laws designed by the ex-Confederate states to sharply limit the civil and economic rights of freedom and create an exploitable workforce.
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Civil Rights in the States; All persons born or naturalized in the United States are subject to its laws and cannot be denied any of the rights and privileges contained in the Constitution.
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Black suffrage: Citizens cannot be denied their right to vote because of their race or color because they were once slaves.
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State and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965.
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Plessy v. Ferguson is a U.S. Supreme court case in 1896 that upheld the rights.
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Thurgood Marshall was a U.S. Supreme Court justice and civil rights advocate.
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Orval Faubus was the Democratic Governor of Arkansas from 1955 to 1967.
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Rosa Parks was an activist of the civil rights movement and the first lady of the civil rights.
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Hector P . Garcia was a passionate advocate for Hispanic-American rights in the United States.
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Lester Maddox was an populist Democrat
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Is an informal punishment enforced by a group who do not have legal authority.
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George Wallace was the governor of Alabama in the 60s, 70s and 80s. He was a segregationist.
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Betty Friedan broke new ground by exploring the idea of women finding personal fulfillment outside of their traditional roles.
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Cesar Chavez was a prominent union leader and labor organizer.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was a baptist minister and social activist who played a key role in the american civil rights movement.
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A form of civil disobedience in which demonstrators occupy seats and refuse to move.
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Stokely Carmichael was a civil rights activist and national chairman of the student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in 1966 and 1967.
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A 14 year old boy who was murdered in Mississippi by 2 white men. His death became a catalyst for the civil rights movement.
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Created during WWII, civil rights organization which first used sit-ins to desegregate lunch counters, also organized freedom rides with SNCC.
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unanimous decision overturned provisions of the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision, which had allowed for “separate but equal” public facilities, including public schools in the United States.
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First group of students to desegregate Central High in defiance of the governor.
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A public, nonviolent, conscientious, yet political act, contrary to law, usually done with the aim of bring about change in the law policies of the government.
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In 1955, after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a city bus, Dr. Martin L. King led a boycott of the city busses.
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Civil Rights organization devoted to achieving equality through non-violent civil disobedience.
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Eisenhower passed this bill to establish a permanent commission on civil rights with investigative powers but it did guarantee a ballot for blacks.
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A policy of favoring members from a disadvantaged group who do or have suffered from discrimination within a culture.
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Thirteen African American and white civil rights activists who rode non-segregated buses.
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In late September 1962 after a legal battle, an African-American Man named James Meredith attempted to enroll at the University of Mississippi.
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Facing federalized Alabama National Guard troops, Alabama Governor George Wallace ends his blockade of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa and allows two African American students to enroll.
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More than 200,000 Americans gathered in Washington, D.C., for a political rally known as the March on Washington for jobs and freedom.
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Protests that are gone at peacefully.
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Passed under the Johnson administration, this act outlawed segregation in public areas and granted the federal government power to fight black disfranchisement.
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The Act where discrimination against any person based on race with voting is not allowed.
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1964 riots which started in an African-American ghetoo of Los Angeles and left 30 dead and 1,000 wounded. Riots lasted a week, and spurred hundreds more around the country.
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Militant civil rights political party created in CA due to police brutality.
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Militant civil rights political party created in CA due to police brutality.
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This law prohibits gender discrimination by institutions of higher learning that receive federal funds.