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13th Amendment
The 13th amendment "abolished slavery" and any involuntary servitude. Unless it was punishment for a crime. This was the first of 3 reconstruction amendments after the Civil War.
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14th Amendment
The primary reason behind the 14th amendment was to insure people born in the United States are citizens, and all protections that come along with that such as due process.
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15th Amendment
The 15th amendment allowed people of color to vote. The amendment prohibits the denial of the right to vote based off race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
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Wilmington Coup
The Wilmington Coup was an event to overthrow the local government in Wilmington to remove any non white person from the government. Involving a mob of white civilians and some light infantry, resulted in the death of at least 14 black people and the expulsion of black and white political leaders.
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Truman Desegregated The US Military
Initially an executive order. Truman gave the opportunity for people of color to serve and have equal jobs within the United States military regardless of race, color, religion, or national origin.
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Brown vs. Board Of Education Of Topeka Kansas
This case is arguably one of the biggest starting impacts towards desegregation within the United States. The supreme court declared that state-sponsored segregation in public schools is unconstitutional.
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Emmett Till's Murder
Emmett Till was a young African American boy who was violent murdered by a group of adult white men after shopping at a gas station. Later on in the court case both white men who were the prime suspects were found not guilty because it was an all white jury.
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Rosa Parks Is Arrested / Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks refuses to get up from her seat to let a white man sits and gets arrested. Because of this, African Americans Boycott the bus company. This became a major event in the civil rights movement.
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Little Rock Nine Incident
The Little Rock Nine Incident was an event were African American students were persecuted by attending a white school. Eventually it turned violent which involved the national guard.
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Civil Rights Act Of 1957
This act aimed to protect voting rights and to establish a federal Civil Rights commission and create a Civil Rights Division within the Department of Justice allowing civil rights movements to be a little more apart of the government.
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Greensboro Sit-In
The Greensboro Sit-In was when four Black students from North Carolina AT State University peacefully sat at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro North Carolina and refused to leave when denied service. This type of peaceful protest became pivotal in the fight for civil rights.
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March On Washington / MLK's I Have A Dream Speech
Everyone has heard of the I Have A Dream Speech. It was a speech given by MLK (Martin Luther King Jr) expressing his dream to be equal to a white man and was a huge motivator to other civil rights activist.
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March From Selma To Montgomery
The March was a series of 3 protest spanning a total of 54 miles from Selma Alabama all the way to the state capital Montgomery. The Marches were led by MLK and the goal was to highlight the struggle of African Americans to exercise their right to vote.
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Assassination Of Martin Luther King, Jr
Because of his influential role in the civil rights movement many people who disagreed with him targeted him for many reasons. Eventually this caught up to MLK and while giving a speech in Memphis TN he was shot.
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Swann vs. Charlotte-Mecklenburg
A follow up on the original Brown vs Board of Education of Topeka case this case was about segregation in the education environment. This specific school system was persistent in not charging there ways and it took another supreme court decision to solve it.
Category: protest, supreme court cases