A boycotte is a protest in a group that is against a store or company.
What is the meaning of boycotte?
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They started a boycotte against the buses.
What did Rosa Parks and her followers do when she was arrested for not giving up her seat to a white person?
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1868
When was the Civil War Amedments passed?
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To have African American kids go to diffrent schools, seperated seats on trains, and seperate entrances.
What did the people think violated there Fourteenth Amendment?
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He was a lawyer for the little girl who had to walk 20 blocks to school.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
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When people are seperated from public places.
What is segregate?
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They marched in streets together, they wrote letters to Congress asking for better laws.
What did both races do to stop unfair discrimination?
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It's against the law if you discriminate against a person's age, disability, or ethnic background,
It is now a against a law if you discriminate against a person's ................................
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To stop goverment from unfairly discriminating aganist African Americans.
Why was the fourteenth amendmenment passed?
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The court said it was legal
Why was it fair to seperate African from the white people?
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The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth was passed after the Civil War to give slaves rights of citizens.
What are the Civil War Amendments and what were they for?
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Marshall argued that segregated schools could not be equal.
How did Thurgood Marshall help bring an end to segregation in our country?
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They could not go to school with white kids, they had seperate seats on trains,seprate entereces, they could not vote, could not have basic rights.
Name all the things that African Americans could not do?
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It did not end unfair discrimination because African American children had to be seperated from other children.
Did the fourteenth Amendment stop discrimination? Give one example.
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To show there support for the Civil Rights Movment.
Why did thousands of people walk to Washington, DC?
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Prohibits laws that unreasonly and unfairly favor some groups.
What is the Equal protection clause?
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He gave his speech " I have a dream" to support the civil right movement.
How did Martin Luther King Jr. strenghthen the civil rights movement?
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She had to walk 20 blocks to get to the school for African Americans. Her family sued the school boared of Topeka
What did the little girl from Topeka/Kansas have to do to get to school and what was her family's actions to put a stop to it?
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" No state shall deny a to any person the equal protection of the laws
What does the Fourteenth Amendment say about equal protection of the laws?
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Asians,Latino's,Native American's,peaple with disabilites, the elderly,and women.
What other group's began to ask for the same right's as African American's?
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This law ended segregation in public place. Also employes can not discriminate aganist people because of their race national origin,religion, or gender.
What is Civil Rights act of 1964?
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It stoped segregation in public places.
What did the Civil Rights of 1964 do?
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African American's ideas about fairness began to change and the Supreme Court decided one of the most important casesin our country's history. The Brown v. Board of Education.
During the half century what happen to African Americans and what did the Supreme Court decide?
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To stop slavery, to stop unfair discrimination agaist African Americans, for equal protection of the laws.