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The Civil Rights Struggle

The Civil Rights Struggle. Chapter 4. The Civil War Amendments. 13 th Amendment 14 th Amendment 15 th Amendment. 13 th Amendment. Ended The Slavery Passed after the Civil War. 14 th Amendment. Civil Rights Amendment Provides everyone equal protection under the law

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The Civil Rights Struggle

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  1. The Civil Rights Struggle Chapter 4

  2. The Civil War Amendments • 13th Amendment • 14th Amendment • 15th Amendment

  3. 13th Amendment • Ended The Slavery • Passed after the Civil War

  4. 14th Amendment • Civil Rights Amendment • Provides everyone equal protection under the law • States Can’t interfere with Privileges and rights of citizens • Passed in response to “Black Codes”

  5. 15th Amendment • States may not prohibit the right to vote based on race and color • Suffrage: Right to Vote • States still found ways to keep blacks from voting: • Poll Tax • Grandfather Clause • Literacy Test

  6. 24th Amendment • Abolished the Poll Tax • Used to keep southern blacks from voting

  7. Lynching • Lynching becomes common in the south after the civil. • Slaves are no longer considered property

  8. The Women’s Suffrage Movement • Women push for right to vote in the early 1900’s • 19th amendment 1920: Gives women the right to vote

  9. Segregation • Separation of races • Plessey v Ferguson 1896: Supreme court ruled “Separate but equal is ok” • Jim Crow Laws

  10. Brown V Board of Education • Supreme Court Case • Ended segregation in schools • Turning point in the civil rights movements • Overturned Plessey v Furgeson

  11. Montgomery Bus Boycott • Rosa Parks Arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man • Black community boycotts the bus system

  12. Civil Rights Act of 1964 • Passed by Congress forbid discrimination in public facilities, employment, education and voter registration

  13. Continued Struggles • Racial Profiling: discrimination by law enforcement? • Affirmative action: Preferential hiring of women and minorities • Critics say it is reverse discrimination

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