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The 13th amendment states that all forms of slavery are no longer legal
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Black Codes were laws set in the south during 1865 and 1866 that had the intent of limiting african american's freedom
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Sharecropping is a system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on their portion of land. Sharecroppers often earned little money this way
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Lynching was a major threat to blacks during the time frame of their freedom from slavery to the complete desegregation of the United states. Lynching is generaly when a group of people, often whites during the late 1800s and through the 1900s, would hang or otherwise kill either a select individual or a group of individuals, most often blacks in the South.
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The 14th amendment gave all U.S. citizens the right to vote, regardless of their color
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The 15th amendment gave all U.S. Citizens the right to vote (as long as they were male)
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Plessy V. Ferguson was a land mark U.S. Supreme court case that upheld the seperation of blacks and whites as constitutional Image found at http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_events_plessy.html
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Laws reffered to as 'Jim crow Laws" are laws that enforced racial segregation that were put into action after the Plessy V. Ferguson case.
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The 19th amendment gave all U.S. Citizens the right to vote regardless of their sex
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The 20th Amendment states that if the President were to die, then the vice president is to take up office
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a United States government agency created as part of the National Housing Act of 1934. It set standards for construction and isued bank loans.
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Garcia helped form The American G.I. Forum to help hispanic vetrans to intregrate back into society
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Brown V. Board was another landmark case in the Supreme court that ruled segregration as "Inherintly Unequal", and removed the laws set in place by the Plessy V. Ferguson decision. Info and Image found at http://www.pbs.org/wnet/supremecourt/rights/landmark_brown.html
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Technically, Segregation ended with the "Seperate but not equal" decision in Brown V. Board, but the roots of segregation ran deep in the south and were hard to get rid of
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during this time the African-American CIvil rights movement fought for equality with the use of many non-violent protest.
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Martain Luther King, Jr gave his first speech pertaining to the montgomery bus boycott Info and image found at http://www.biography.com/people/martin-luther-king-jr-9365086
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Altough she was not the first to standup (or rather to Sit down) for her rights on the bus, Rosa Parks was the one the NAACP chose to be their star of the Bus Borcots that followed
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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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Civil disobediance can mean one of two things, the book by Henry David Thoreau, or the act of non-violently protesting unjust laws and actions. During the course of the Civil Rights Movements civil disobediance is a common theme for those fighting for equality.
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Serving as the Governor of Arkansas, Orvill Faubus summoned the National Guard to block the 9 black children from attending school in Little rock Info and Photo found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orval_Faubus
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Primairaly a voting rights act, this Act strengthened the enforcement of the 15th amendment
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A Series of non-violent sit-ins that caused a Woolworth department store in north carolina to get rid of its segregration rules
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the policy of favoring members of a disadvantaged group who suffer from discrimination within a culture.
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The rights of a citizen to vote shall not be impeded by a poll tax
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WIth the help of Dolores Huerta, Cesar founded United Farm Workers of America
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In an attempt to stop two black children from enrolling at the university of Alabama, Then Governor Wallace stood infront of the main door. President John F. Kenedy sent in the U.S. 2nd infantry to enforce the desegregratio laws
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Betty Friedan is known for writting the book "The feminin Mystique", which is creditied to sparking the second large wave of feminism in the U.S.
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As owner of the Pickrick resturaunt in georgia, Lester refused to serve blacks and later on those who supported intregration. He threatend those who tried to enter the resturaunt with a axe handle reffered to as "the Drumstick".
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 banned all discrimination based on race, color, or sex (which was added at the last moment)
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The goal of Upward Bound is to provide certain categories of high school students better opportunities for attending college.
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Head start began as a sumer school program that helped low-income children catch up with missed lessons.
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Thurgood Marshall was appointed as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court on October 2, 1967 and served untill october 1, 1991, just two years untill he died of a heart failure Image and Info found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurgood_Marshall
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The 26th amendment allowed any citizen of the U.S. to vote in an election at the age of 18
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A comprehensive federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in any federally funded education program or activity.