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| policies designed by government officials to protect people. |
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| citizenship rights and equal protection of laws. |
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| laws must provide equivalent protection to all people. |
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| suffrage for African Americans. |
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| Small taxes levied on right to vote. |
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| Primary elections from which African Americans were excluded. |
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| Declared poll tazes void in elections. |
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| Voting Rights Act of 1965 |
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| law designed to help end formal and informal barriers to African American suffrage. |
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| Equal rights shall not be denied based on sex. |
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| Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 |
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| requires companies to make accomodations for people with disabilities and prevents discrimination. |
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| give special attention to or compensary treatment for members of some previously disadvantaged group. |
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| a slave who escaped to a free state had no rights as citizens and Congress had no authority to ban slavery in territories. |
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| Separate but equal accomodations |
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| Segregation was unconstitutional - Violated 14th Amendment - Equal protection |
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| internment of Japanese americans because of WWII |
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