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The Civil Rights Act of 1866 is the first civil rights law. It ended segregation in public places and banned discrimination based on race and color.
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The 15th Amendment is the right for citizens of the United States to vote, shall not be denied by any state based off race or color.
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The 14th Amendment was granted citizenship to everyone born or naturalized in the United States, including legal right to African Americans and enslaved people.
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The first federal women's suffrage amendment was introduced but was later defeated in the first full senate vote.
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Homer Plessy bought a ticket on a train from New Orleans and took a seat in a white-only car. He refused to leave the car and was arrested and jailed. Ferguson was a judge and presided over the trail, which is now known as ¨Plessy v. Ferguson¨ for violating a law that prohibited integrated rail travel in the state.
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NAACP stands for National Association for Advancement of Colored People. It is a a anti-lynching campaign and violence against african american around the world.
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The 19th Amendment is that women have the right to vote. Susan B. Anthony and other activists, raised public awareness and protested to grant voting rights to women. Groups finally emerged and passed the 19th Amendment.
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This case struck down racially restrictive housing covenants. The supreme court held that courts could not enforce real estate covenants that restricted the purchase or sale property based on race.
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The court declared that racial segregation in public schools violated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.
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Rosa parks was a african american women who refused to give up her seat on a crowded bus to a white passenger and was arrested. African American were required to sit at the back of public buses and were to give up those seats to white riders if the front of the bus was full.
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The act prohibits discrimination on race, color, religion, or sex. It secured african americans equal access to restaurants, transportation, and other public facilities
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NOW known as National Organization of Women is an american feminist organization. The women's movement was most successful in pushing for gender equality in workplaces and universities.
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The county school board of New Kent County was a United States Supreme Court case that involved school desegregation.
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The Supreme Court upheld busing programs that aimed to speed up the racial integration of public schools in the United States.
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Proposition 209 added Section 31 to the California Constitution Declaration of Rights, which said that the state cannot discriminate against the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in employment, education, and etc.