No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."1 And lastly the Fifteenth Amendment in 1870, "Section 1. ... King's actions resulted in the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1960, signed into law by president Dwight D. Eisenhower, and then followed by the Civil Rights Act 1964 signed into law by Lyndon B. ... Kings leadership and style of...

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• Grade Level: High School

Many believed that the movement began with the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955 and ended with the Voting Rights act of 1965. ... The 14th amendment granted them equal protection under the law. ... Most of these practices came to an end with the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. ... It also gave the executive branch the power to enforce the act's provisions. ... After the passage of the Voting Rights act of 1965 , the Civil Rights Movements began to move away from it non-violent roots. ...

• Word Count: 1907
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The Supreme Court decided that segregation was unlawful because it violated the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection and due process. ... This act enraged both blacks and whites. 2500 students and community members staged a silent march to City Hall that day. ... Sit-ins continued in some areas even after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 had declared segregation at lunch counters unlawful. ...

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Johnson, was compelled to grant equal protection for all American citizens. ... This march was a product of a build of frustration for the lack of enforcement of the Civil Rights Act. ... Who would have known that after the Civil Rights Act was passed, discrimination and unreasonable abuse was still being continued in the south? ... Although the act was passed, it was still not being enforced in the south. ... Who would have known that after the civil rights act was passed, blacks were still living in a time of no freedom? ...

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While in our society burning draft cards might smack of controversy, such an act might warrant death in other nations. ... The United States constitution and its protection of liberty has served as a model for countless other documents: The constitutions of Poland, revolutionary France, and countless Latin American Countries. ...

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While in our society burning draft cards might smack of controversy, such an act might warrant death in other nations. ... The United States constitution and its protection of liberty has served as a model for countless other documents: The constitutions of Poland, revolutionary France, and countless Latin American Countries. ...

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While in our society burning draft cards might smack of controversy, such an act might warrant death in other nations. ... The United States constitution and its protection of liberty has served as a model for countless other documents: The constitutions of Poland, revolutionary France, and countless Latin American Countries. ...

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The amendment said that '[no] State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of laws'." ... The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was created. ...

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While in our society burning draft cards might smack of controversy, such an act might warrant death in other nations. ... The United States constitution and its protection of liberty has served as a model for countless other documents: The constitutions of Poland, revolutionary France, and countless Latin American Countries. ...

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Parks' act started a citywide boycott of the bus system by African-Americans that lasted for more than a year. ... Because he advocated the use of violence (for self-protection) and appeared to many to be a fanatic, most civil-rights leaders, who emphasized nonviolent resistance to racial injustice, rejected his leadership. ...

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Parks' act started a citywide boycott of the bus system by African-Americans that lasted for more than a year. ... Because he advocated the use of violence (for self-protection) and appeared to many to be a fanatic, most civil-rights leaders, who emphasized nonviolent resistance to racial injustice, rejected his leadership. ...

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This was the flame that started the fire that burned strongly throughout the 1960's up until the Civil Rights Act was signed thereby giving African Americans the same rights as all other Americans. This was a brave act indeed and literally started an entire movement that has changed the course of history for the greater good. ... The March on Washington is widely credited with being a major force in helping to pass the Civil Rights Act in 1964 as well as the Voting Rights Act in 1965. ...

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One of the most noted turning points in American History is the Civil Rights Movement. Almost every aspect of this country today, would not be the same if it was not for the African American leaders that stood up in their communities during the mid 1900's and preached words of a United States that w...

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It also barred any state from taking a persons life, liberty, and property without due process of law and from denying equal protection of laws. ... In the result of this act many blacks were arrested, beaten, jailed, deprived of their jobs, intimidated, and some even killed. ...

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Congress passed The Civil Rights Act of 1866 against Johnson's veto, granting U.S. citizenship to blacks (504). Gaining momentum, Congress also passed the Fourteenth Amendment, making everyone born in the United States (or brought up in the United States) to be a citizen, and declaring "no state could abridge their rights without due process of law or deny them equal protection under the law (Boyer, et al. 505)." ... McKissack 32-34)" Finally, Congress passed the Reconstruction Act of 1867. This act put the South under military rule by Union officers and forced seceded states to ratif...

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They were granted no civil rights, they were not "allowed" commerce or business in most establishments, and they were not guaranteed equal protection under the law. ... King had to act out against the ungodly pressures of his time and demand a stop to the ill-will of the white majority. ...

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• Grade Level: High School