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When was the 13th amendment passed ?

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1865

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What was the 13th amendment

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In addition to banning slavery, the amendment outlawed the practice of involuntary servitude and peonage

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When was the freedmans bureau set up and who set it up

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1865, Congress

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What was the freedmans bureau

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established in 1865 by Congress to help millions of former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the Civil War

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What were black codes ?

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Black codes were restrictive laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans and ensure their availability as a cheap labor force after slavery was abolished during the Civil War

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What did black codes force people to do ?

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Black people to sign yearly labor contracts; if they refused, they risked being arrested, fined and forced into unpaid labor.

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When were black codes passed ?

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1866

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When was the first civil rights act ?

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1866

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What was the civil rights act of 1866 ?

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All persons born in the United States are now citizens.

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When is the 14th amendment?

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1868

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What was the 14th amendment?

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granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and slaves who had been emancipated

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When was the 15th amendment?

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1870

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What was the 15th amendment?

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guarantees the right of male citizens of the United States to vote regardless of race, color or previous condition of servitude.

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What were the enforcement acts ?

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three bills passed by the United States Congress between 1870 and 1871. They were criminal codes that protected African-Americans’ right to vote, to hold office, to serve on juries, and receive equal protection of laws.

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When was the slaughter house case ?

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1873

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What did the slaughter house case represent

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gave every state the right to create their own laws and southern states enacted the first segregation laws known as the Jim Crow laws.

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When was strauder vs Virginia

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1880

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What did the virgins vs strayder case represent

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the U.S. Supreme Court rules that African Americans could not be excluded from juries.

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What positive was there for blsck people in 1880 ?

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During the 1880s, African Americans in the South reach a peak of numbers in being elected and holding local offices, even while white Democrats are working to assert control at state level.

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When did Booker T Washington open up the Tuskegee institute

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1881

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When did Booker T Washington announce the Atlanta compromise ?

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1895

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What was the Atlanta compromise ?

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The agreement was that Southern blacks would work and submit to white political rule, while Southern whites guaranteed that blacks would receive basic education and due process in law

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When was plessy v Ferguson

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1896

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What was plessy vs Ferguson ?

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the U.S. Supreme Court upholds de jure racial segregation of “separate but equal” facilities.

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When was Williams vs Mississippi
1898
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What was Williams vs Mississippi?
- the US Supreme Court upheld the poll tax, disenfranchisement clauses, literacy tests, and the grandfather clause, all of which were features of the 1890 Mississippi Constitution and statutes. - helped enforce the suppression of African Americans’ civil rights in Mississippi and other states.
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When was the niagara movement ?
1905
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What was the niagara movement?
organized to oppose racial segregation and disenfranchisement. It opposed what its members believed were policies of accommodation and conciliation promoted by African-American leaders such as Booker T. Washington.
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When was the NAACP founded ?
1909
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Whst was the naacp ?
to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination
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When was the sprimgfield race riot ?
1908
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What happened during the spring field race riots ?
mass racial violence committed against African Americans by a mob of about 5,000 white Americans and European immigrants in Springfield, Illinois, between August 14 and 16, 1908
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What film release causes problems in 1915
The Birth of a Nation is released to film theaters. The NAACP protests in cities across the country, convincing some not to show the film.
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When was Guinness vs US
1915
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What did Guinn vs US represent
found certain grandfather clause exemptions to literacy tests for voting rights to be unconstitutional.
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What was the daughter of American revolution
lineage-based membership service organization for women who are directly descended from a person involved in the United States' efforts towards independence
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When was the DAR founded
1896
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What did president Franklin Roosevelt do ?
The new deal
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When was the new deal set up
1933
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What impact did the works progress administration have
employed over 300,000 African Americans,
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What impact did the civilian conservation corps have
employed over 300,000 African Americans,
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What impact did the public works administration have ?
set quotas for the number of African Americans that had to be hired for all construction jobs.
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Positive of Roosevelt’s new deal
taught more than 1 million African Americans to read and write. More skilled and educated African Americans were hired as engineers, librarians, lawyers, and architects under New Deal programs
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Negative of the new deal
- blacks were among the 100 million consumers forced to pay higher food prices because of the AAA -
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How did Marcus Garvey attempt to help economically ?
creation of the black star line in 1919
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What did Truman do regarding the armed forces in 1948
President Harry S. Truman issues Executive Order 9981 ordering the end of racial discrimination in the Armed Forces
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When was brown vs board of education
1954
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What did brown vs board of education represent
establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality - overturned 1896 plessy vs Ferguson separate but equal
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What started the Montgomery bus boycott
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus, starting the Montgomery bus boycott.
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When was the Montgomery bus boycott
1955
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What was boynton vs Virginia
the U.S. Supreme Court holds that racial segregation in bus terminals is illegal
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When were the freedom rides
1961
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What were the freedom rides
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions Morgan v. Virginia (1946) and Boynton v. Virginia (1960), which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional.
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When was the March on Washington
1963
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What did the March on Washington achieve
The civil rights act of 1964
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What was the civil rights act of 1964 ?
Under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, segregation on the grounds of race, religion or national origin was banned at all places of public accommodation, including courthouses, parks, restaurants, theaters, sports arenas and hotels. No longer could Black people and other minorities be denied service simply based on the color of their skin.
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When was the Selma March
1965
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Why was there a March on Selma
The marches were organized by nonviolent activists to demonstrate the desire of African-American citizens to exercise their constitutional right to vote
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Voting rights act 1965
prohibits racial discrimination in voting
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When was the blsck panther party founded
1966 by Bobby seale and Huey Newton
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What was the blsck panther party
the Black Panther Party's core practice was its open carry armed citizens' patrols ("copwatching") to monitor the behavior of officers of the Oakland Police Department and challenge police brutality in the city.
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How did the black panthers help the community
The Party instituted the Free Breakfast for Children Programs to address food injustice, and community health clinics for education and treatment of diseases including sickle cell anemia, tuberculosis, and later HIV/AIDS
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Who was the first black person to be a part of the Supreme Court and in what year
Thurgood Marshall is the first African American appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, 1967
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Fair housing act 1968
it bans discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing
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Poor people’s March
was a 1968 effort to gain economic justice for poor people in the United States. It was organized by Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
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What political achieve did blsck people gain in 1972
Shirley Chisholm becomes the first major-party African-American candidate for President of the United States and the first woman to run for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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When was Swann vs board of education
1971
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What did Swann vs board of education represent
The Court held that busing was an appropriate remedy for the problem of racial imbalance in schools, even when the imbalance resulted from the selection of students based on geographic proximity to the school rather than from deliberate assignment based on race
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What was Milliken vs Bradley
the Court held that the school systems were not responsible for desegregation across district lines unless it could be shown that they had each deliberately engaged in a policy of segregation.
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When was bakke vs California
1978
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What did bakke vs California represent
It upheld affirmative action, allowing race to be one of several factors in college admission policy. However, the court ruled that specific racial quotas, such as the 16 out of 100 seats set aside for minority students by the University of California, Davis School of Medicine, were impermissible.

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