https://padlet.com/joselemus041/l04f89lq8mq en-us 2019-04-11 16:34:34 UTC 2019-04-16 16:36:16 UTC hello@padlet.com joselemus041 https://padlet.com/joselemus041/l04f89lq8mq/wish/351186194 After the Civil War ,a couple of amendments abolished slavery

Meaning that all slaves were now citizens 

As well as allowing all men to be able to vote regardless of race

Even though slavery had been abolished , a set of laws were set up to keep African Americans in check,such as the Jim Crow Laws supported by the Ku Klux Klan(KKK)]]> 2019-04-12 15:02:41 UTC https://padlet.com/joselemus041/l04f89lq8mq/wish/351186194 joselemus041 https://padlet.com/joselemus041/l04f89lq8mq/wish/352027984 After Decades of segragation there was no civil rights act in place

Finally in 1957 , a civil rights section had been established and three years later congress had helped blacks register to vote however both of these bills were extremely watered down]]> 2019-04-16 16:09:56 UTC https://padlet.com/joselemus041/l04f89lq8mq/wish/352027984 joselemus041 https://padlet.com/joselemus041/l04f89lq8mq/wish/352029782 Finally after all these years , John F Kennedy ,who entered the white house in 1961 ,had proposed a Civil Rights legislation and said that "will not fully be free until all of its citizens are free"

Once the Act had been put in place ,it forbade the use of federal funds for discrimitory programs.

As well as the Commission of Civil Rights had prohibited the unequal application of voting Requirements.]]> 2019-04-16 16:14:37 UTC https://padlet.com/joselemus041/l04f89lq8mq/wish/352029782 joselemus041 https://padlet.com/joselemus041/l04f89lq8mq/wish/352032721 Mlk said that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is "second emancipation"

The Civil Rights Act had expanded and brought disabled ,the enderly , and women under its umbrella

The Act also paved the way for Voting Rights Act of 1965 as well as the Fair Housing Act of 1968


]]> 2019-04-16 16:22:17 UTC https://padlet.com/joselemus041/l04f89lq8mq/wish/352032721 joselemus041 https://padlet.com/joselemus041/l04f89lq8mq/wish/352034387 2019-04-16 16:26:43 UTC https://padlet.com/joselemus041/l04f89lq8mq/wish/352034387