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13th Amendment: Abolished slavery
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14th Amendment: Gave all U.S. citizens equal protection under the law regardless of color.
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15th Amendment: Gave African-American men the right to vote.
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24th Amendment: Abolished the poll tax.
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Abraham Lincoln: President of the US during the Civil War.
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Booker T. Washington: Early African-American leader- believed African-Americans should achieve economic independence before social equality.
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Brown v. Board of Education: Made segregation illegal in public schools.
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Civil War: 1861 - 1865
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Emancipation Proclamation: Abraham Lincoln freed all slaves in the Confederate states.
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George Wallace: Alabama governor, segregationist, presidential candidate. Shot and left paralyzed.
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Jim Crow laws: Laws that maintained segregation by preventing African Americans from voting.
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Malcolm X: Black Muslim who argued for separation, not integration. He changed his views, but was assassinated in 1965.
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Martin Luther King Jr: Civil Rights leader from 1950's-1960's. Assassinated in 1968.
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Medger Evers: Mississippi civil rights activist. Assasinated by KKK member.
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Nullification Crisis: Argument between South Carolina and the federal government over the role of the national government.
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Plessy v. Ferguson: Supreme Court decision that upheld segregation and said that "separate but equal" facilities were legal.
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Reconstruction: Period after the Civil War in the US when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union.
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Reynolds v. Sims: Ruled that state legislature districts had to be roughly equal in population.
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Rosa Parks: Refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. After she was jailed, the Montgomery bus boycott was organized.
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Segregation: Separation by race.
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Shirley Chisholm: The first African-American woman elected to the U.S House of Representatives.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964: Made discrimination based on race, religion or national origin in public places.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1968: Prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.
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The Little Rock Nine: Group of African-American students that were integrated into an all-white school in 1957
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WEB DuBois: Early civil rights leader and founder of the NAACP. Du Bois demanded equality for African-Americans
