https://padlet.com/kendall_minaldi_771/tzbv734uk5vl en-us 2017-02-28 17:21:46 UTC 2017-03-13 16:55:49 UTC hello@padlet.com kendall_minaldi_771 https://padlet.com/kendall_minaldi_771/tzbv734uk5vl/wish/156796917 The 24th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America abolished the poll tax for all federal elections. A poll tax was a tax of anywhere from one to a few dollars that had to be paid annually by each voter in order to be able to cast a vote.

]]> 2017-02-28 17:23:15 UTC https://padlet.com/kendall_minaldi_771/tzbv734uk5vl/wish/156796917 kendall_minaldi_771 https://padlet.com/kendall_minaldi_771/tzbv734uk5vl/wish/156797194 The 13th Amendment to the Constitution declared that neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

]]> 2017-02-28 17:23:56 UTC https://padlet.com/kendall_minaldi_771/tzbv734uk5vl/wish/156797194 kendall_minaldi_771 https://padlet.com/kendall_minaldi_771/tzbv734uk5vl/wish/156797321 The Fourteenth Amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws, and was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves following the American Civil War.

]]> 2017-02-28 17:24:17 UTC https://padlet.com/kendall_minaldi_771/tzbv734uk5vl/wish/156797321 kendall_minaldi_771 https://padlet.com/kendall_minaldi_771/tzbv734uk5vl/wish/156797419 The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

]]> 2017-02-28 17:24:35 UTC https://padlet.com/kendall_minaldi_771/tzbv734uk5vl/wish/156797419 kendall_minaldi_771 https://padlet.com/kendall_minaldi_771/tzbv734uk5vl/wish/156797584 Jackie Robinson was the first African American to play Major League baseball outside of a segregated black league, in 1947. He became a living milestone for racial equality and changed the sport of baseball forever.

]]> 2017-02-28 17:24:59 UTC https://padlet.com/kendall_minaldi_771/tzbv734uk5vl/wish/156797584 kendall_minaldi_771 https://padlet.com/kendall_minaldi_771/tzbv734uk5vl/wish/156797704 Executive Order 9981 was an executive order issued on July 26, 1948, by President Harry S. Truman. It abolished racial discrimination in the United States Armed Forces and eventually led to the end of segregation in the services.

]]> 2017-02-28 17:25:16 UTC https://padlet.com/kendall_minaldi_771/tzbv734uk5vl/wish/156797704 kendall_minaldi_771 https://padlet.com/kendall_minaldi_771/tzbv734uk5vl/wish/156797822 A black seamstress from Montgomery, Alabama, who, in 1955, refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery city bus to a white person, as she was legally required to do.

]]> 2017-02-28 17:25:34 UTC https://padlet.com/kendall_minaldi_771/tzbv734uk5vl/wish/156797822 kendall_minaldi_771 https://padlet.com/kendall_minaldi_771/tzbv734uk5vl/wish/156798006 Emmett Louis Till was an African-American teenager who was lynched in Mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white woman.

]]> 2017-02-28 17:26:05 UTC https://padlet.com/kendall_minaldi_771/tzbv734uk5vl/wish/156798006 kendall_minaldi_771 https://padlet.com/kendall_minaldi_771/tzbv734uk5vl/wish/156798384 The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas.

]]> 2017-02-28 17:27:02 UTC https://padlet.com/kendall_minaldi_771/tzbv734uk5vl/wish/156798384 kendall_minaldi_771 https://padlet.com/kendall_minaldi_771/tzbv734uk5vl/wish/156798468 On Feb. 1, 1960 four black freshmen at North Carolina A&T State University, Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil, Ezell Blair, Jr., and David Richmond, took seats at the segregated lunch counter of F. W. Woolworth's in Greensboro, N.C.

]]> 2017-02-28 17:27:15 UTC https://padlet.com/kendall_minaldi_771/tzbv734uk5vl/wish/156798468 kendall_minaldi_771 https://padlet.com/kendall_minaldi_771/tzbv734uk5vl/wish/156798597 Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years in order to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions Morgan v. Virginia (1946) and Boynton v. Virginia (1960), which ruled the segregation of the public.

]]> 2017-02-28 17:27:37 UTC https://padlet.com/kendall_minaldi_771/tzbv734uk5vl/wish/156798597 kendall_minaldi_771 https://padlet.com/kendall_minaldi_771/tzbv734uk5vl/wish/156798984 In 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested and sent to jail because he and others were protesting the treatment of blacks in Birmingham, Alabama.

]]> 2017-02-28 17:28:28 UTC https://padlet.com/kendall_minaldi_771/tzbv734uk5vl/wish/156798984 kendall_minaldi_771 https://padlet.com/kendall_minaldi_771/tzbv734uk5vl/wish/156799196 A letter that Martin Luther King, Jr., addressed to his fellow clergymen while he was in jail in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963, after a nonviolent protest against racial segregation.

]]> 2017-02-28 17:28:58 UTC https://padlet.com/kendall_minaldi_771/tzbv734uk5vl/wish/156799196 kendall_minaldi_771 https://padlet.com/kendall_minaldi_771/tzbv734uk5vl/wish/156799309 The Birmingham campaign, or Birmingham movement, was a movement organized in early 1963 by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to bring attention to the integration efforts of African Americans in Birmingham,  Alabama.

]]> 2017-02-28 17:29:12 UTC https://padlet.com/kendall_minaldi_771/tzbv734uk5vl/wish/156799309 kendall_minaldi_771 https://padlet.com/kendall_minaldi_771/tzbv734uk5vl/wish/156799927 March on Washington was a political demonstration held in Washington, D.C., in 1963 by civil rights leaders to protest racial discrimination and to show support for major civil rights legislation that was pending in Congress.

]]> 2017-02-28 17:30:33 UTC https://padlet.com/kendall_minaldi_771/tzbv734uk5vl/wish/156799927 kendall_minaldi_771 https://padlet.com/kendall_minaldi_771/tzbv734uk5vl/wish/156800105 The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark civil rights and US labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

]]> 2017-02-28 17:30:56 UTC https://padlet.com/kendall_minaldi_771/tzbv734uk5vl/wish/156800105 kendall_minaldi_771 https://padlet.com/kendall_minaldi_771/tzbv734uk5vl/wish/156800208 A law passed at the time of the civil rights movement. It eliminated various devices, such as literacy tests, that had traditionally been used to restrict voting by black people.

]]> 2017-02-28 17:31:09 UTC https://padlet.com/kendall_minaldi_771/tzbv734uk5vl/wish/156800208 kendall_minaldi_771 https://padlet.com/kendall_minaldi_771/tzbv734uk5vl/wish/156800287 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is a federal agency that administers and enforces civil rights laws against workplace discrimination.

]]> 2017-02-28 17:31:22 UTC https://padlet.com/kendall_minaldi_771/tzbv734uk5vl/wish/156800287 kendall_minaldi_771 https://padlet.com/kendall_minaldi_771/tzbv734uk5vl/wish/156800372 The Civil Rights Act signed into law in April 1968–popularly known as the Fair Housing Act–prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin and sex.

]]> 2017-02-28 17:31:33 UTC https://padlet.com/kendall_minaldi_771/tzbv734uk5vl/wish/156800372 kendall_minaldi_771 https://padlet.com/kendall_minaldi_771/tzbv734uk5vl/wish/156800476 In the early evening of April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed by James Earl Ray. He was standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, where he had come to lead a peaceful march in support of striking sanitation workers.

]]> 2017-02-28 17:31:47 UTC https://padlet.com/kendall_minaldi_771/tzbv734uk5vl/wish/156800476 kendall_minaldi_771 https://padlet.com/kendall_minaldi_771/tzbv734uk5vl/wish/156800532 Wisconsin v. Yoder, case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on May 15, 1972, ruled that Wisconsin’s compulsory school attendance law was unconstitutional when applied to the Amish, because it violated their rights under the First Amendment, which guaranteed the free exercise of religion.

]]> 2017-02-28 17:31:55 UTC https://padlet.com/kendall_minaldi_771/tzbv734uk5vl/wish/156800532 kendall_minaldi_771 https://padlet.com/kendall_minaldi_771/tzbv734uk5vl/wish/156800686 The Supreme Court case that held that the Constitution protected a woman's right to an abortion prior to the viability of the fetus; thus, government regulation of abortions must meet strict scrutiny in judicial review.

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