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Amendment of the Constitution that abolished slavery. Group: African Americans Significance: Finally gave people of all races freedom and the right to not be ownership or property of someone else. -
Gave all people born or naturalized in the U.S. rights of citizenship, due process of law, and equal protection of the law. Group: African Americans Significance: Has become one of the most used amendments in court to regarding the equal protection clause. -
The right to vote shouldn't be denied on account of race or color, especially for African Americans. Group: African Americans Significance: Gave all men the right to vote no matter what color or race they are, further step towards full equality for the U.S. -
Founded by Booker T. Washington, it established a normal school for colored teachers in Tuskegee, Alabama. Group: African Americans Significance: Provided African American students with academic and vocational training. -
U.S. Supreme Court case that resulted in the ruling of "Separate but equal". Group: African Americans Significance: Even though people of color were now free, they were still split apart and less superior than whites. -
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Created by W.E.B Du Bois as a Civil Rights organization to help fight for African American rights. Group: African Americans Significance: Played a major role in pushing for the end of segregation, led to Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education that banned segregation in public schools. -
The right to vote shouldn't be denied on the account of sex. Group: Women Significance: Women get the right to vote, which pushed them even closer to equality with men. -
Proposed by the National Women's political party to provide for the legal equality of sexes and to stop discrimination on the basis of sex. The amendment was proposed in 1923 and defeated in 1972. Group: Women Significance: It was the start of the end of inequality based on sex, as the National Women's political party sought to end all discrimination between women and men. -
President Truman ended discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion or national origin in the military. Group: African Americans Significance: Led to the U.S. Armed Forces ending segregation in their services during the Korean War. -
U.S. Supreme Court case that ended racial segregation in public schools and overturned Plessy v. Ferguson. Group: African Americans Significance: The court case was a turning point in ending segregation because it the start of segregation being banned for major populations. -
Civil rights protest where African Americans refused to ride city buses with segregated seating. Rosa Parks was a key figure who protested by sitting with the whites in a segregated bus. Group: African Americans Significance: The bus boycott signaled to many African Americans that peaceful protest could result in the changing of laws to grant equality to all people. -
Governor Orval Faubus prevented 9 African American students from entering high school, but President Eisenhower used the National Guard to protect the students' entry into the high school Group: African Americans Significance: These 9 African American students were the first to enter Little Rock High School after schools had to ban segregation 3 years earlier. This led to many more African Americans being able to enter high school and have the same education as non-colored people. -
President Eisenhower established the Civil Rights Section of the Justice Department and gave power to federal prosecutors to obtain court injunctions against interference with voting rights. Group: African Americans Significance: Laid the foundation for the federal reinforcement of civil rights and increased protection of voting rights. -
A conference to advance civil rights in a peaceful way. Martin Luther King Jr. helped significantly with this conference. Group: African Americans Significance: Influenced many African Americans to start peacefully protesting, which later led to African Americans gaining full equality. -
Four African American students sat at a lunch counter for whites only to protest racial segregation and refused to leave after being denied service. Group: African Americans Significance: Use of nonviolence inspired others to follow them, which further developed the case for equal rights in the U.S. -
Student political organization civil rights group that used nonviolent strategies to protest for equal rights. Group: African Americans Significance: Influenced African Americans to participate in sit-ins, freedom rides, marches, and other protests to push for equality. -
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Mexican - American civil rights movement in which many artists began using walls of city buildings, housing projects, schools, and churches to draw Mexican - American culture. Group: Chicanos Significance: Creation of bilingual and bicultural programs, improved conditions for migrant workers, hiring of chicano teachers, and Mexican - Americans working as elected officials.
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Civil rights activists who rode on interstate buses to the segregated southern U.S. They challenged and protested local laws to push for integration by breaking segregation laws. Group: African Americans Significance: They increased the credibility of the American Civil Rights Movement and eventually led to integration. -
Co - founded the National Farm Workers Association and was a major Latino American civil rights activist. Group: Chicanos Significance: He pushed for better working conditions for many workers on farms who worked for low wages and under severe conditions. -
Defended the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism and segregation Group: African Americans Significance: The letter served as a start to the long road to freedom in a movement based on actions and words. -