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This Amendment put an end to slavery by making the act of slavery unlawful unless punishment is due for being convicted.

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This Amendment addresses that any citizen of the United States has the same laws. Everyone is allowed to a life of liberty or property or equal rights.

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This Amendment states that any person can't be denied the right to vote by the United States or any State due to race, color, or previous servitude.

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Jackie Robinson was the first African American to receive a contract to play Major League Baseball. On April 11, 1947 he signed his first National League contract and joined the Dodgers.

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In 1948, President Truman signed Executive Order No. 9981 which was the order to end segregation in the armed forces. Also, Truman required the military to give all citizens equal opportunity.

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In 1955, a 14 year-old boy was murdered by two white men who claimed the child was being suggestive towards a white girl. With recent civil rights movements occurring this outraged many people and lit a fire in the civil rights movement. Later, this helped with the ending of lynching and other horrible acts.

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In December of 1955, Rosa Parks was riding a bus home when she refused to give up her seat for a white man. She was later arrested but her courage showed many African Americans how they can stand up to this discrimination.

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After Brown vs. Board of Education when they ruled to have a desegregation of schools, nine African American students showed up to Central High School in Little Rock the National Guard was there blocking there entrance. larger riots turned up outside the school and police had to patrol the school for the rest of the year.

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Four African American students at Greensboro College went to Woolworth's counter and were refused service. After being refused the four demonstrated a sit-in by quietly sitting and waiting at the counter and didn't leave until closing. The next days more and more African Americans came to that cafe and did the same thing. They created the Student Executive Committee for Justice.

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Freedom Rides were a series of organized interstate rides that were intended to directly confront the Jim Crow laws.These rides ended in the fall of 1961 after they were arrested for not obeying the Mississippi segregation laws.

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The Southern Christian Leadership Conference organized a campaign against racial segregation. This group led a series of boycotts and peaceful demonstrations that became turning point in the civil rights movement. It ended badly when officers tried to suppress the protests and turned it violent.

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On April 12, 1963, Martin Luther King was arrested for disobeying Alabama's law against mass public demonstrations. From his jail cell MLK wrote a letter addressing eight Birmingham clergy members who viewed his campaign as ineffective.

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250,000 demonstrators came together to create the largest civil rights demonstration and also for the first time showed unity among civil rights organizations. This march is what led to the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

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This amendment prohibited the enforcement of poll taxes before a citizen can participate in a federal election. This Amendment gave another reason to allow people to vote under all circumstances.

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This Civil Rights Act provided the basis for the basic civil rights movement. It was originally passed specifically intended to protect African Americans but later was altered to help other groups also.

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The most successful civil rights act ever passed was the Voting Rights Act which allowed a guarantee of the voting rights of all Americans.

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EEOC:Equal Employment Opportunity Commission- July 2, 1965

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EEOC:Equal Employment Opportunity Commission- July 2, 1965

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Created under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, this group allowed for the end of discrimination in all aspects of employment.

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Martin Luther King was the most influential leader in the civil rights movement and when he went to Memphis to give a speech he was shot waving from his hotel balcony. After his death many riots and outraged were expressed by his supporters. They later found his assassination to be apart of a conspiracy group.

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This Civil Rights Act is also known as the Fair Housing Act because its purpose is to eliminate any discrimination when it comes to to selling, purchasing or anything involved with most housing.

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This case had to do with Amish children found that the Wisconsin law that required school attendance past the eighth grade as conflicting with the first amendment where people have the right to religion because the amish feel after eighth grade they don't need school and they chose to focus on religion.

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This case has its importance because it talks about the women's right for the decision of abortion. It was decided that under the 14th Amendment that woman had the right to decide if they want an abortion or not.