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| 6069566408 | Civil rights | Policies designed to protect people against arbitrary or discriminatory treatment by government officials or individuals | 0 | |
| 6069576951 | Equal protection of the laws | part of the fourteenth amendment emphasizing that the laws must provide equivalent "protection" to all people. | 1 | |
| 6069619995 | 13 Amendment | abolished slavery | 2 | |
| 6069626809 | Plessy v. Ferguson | sumpreme court ruled that segregation public places facilities were legal as long as the facilites were equal | 3 | |
| 6069637132 | Brown v. Bord | the law that made racial discrimination against any group in hotels, motels, and restaurants illegal and forbade many forms of job discrimination | 4 | |
| 6069644763 | Civil right acts of 1964 | the law that made racial discrimination against any group in hotels, motels, and restaurants illegal and forbade many forms of job discrimination | 5 | |
| 6069654968 | Suffrage | the right to vote | 6 | |
| 6069692445 | Poll taxes | required citizens of a state to pay a special tax in order to vote | 7 | |
| 6069695875 | White primary | the practice of keeping blacks from voting in the southern states' primaries through arbitrary use of registration requirements and intimidation. | 8 | |
| 6069708098 | 24 amendment | Prohibits poll tax in federal elections | 9 | |
| 6069721972 | Voting right act of 1965 | a law designed to help end formal and informal barriers to African-American suffrage | 10 | |
| 6069859248 | 19 amendment | granted women the right to vote in 1920 | 11 | |
| 6069859387 | Equal right amendment | constitutional amendment passed by Congress but never ratified that would have banned discrimination on the basis of gender | 12 | |
| 6069935894 | Reed v. Reed | the landmark case in 1971 in which the supreme court for the first time upheld a claim of gender discrimination. ,m | 13 | |
| 6069953830 | Americans with Disabilities | a law passed in 1990 that requires employers and public facilities to make "reasonable accomodations" for people with disabilities and prohibits discrimination against these individuals in employment | 14 | |
| 6069967141 | Regret of the University | Court ruling that colleges and universities could legitimately consider race as a factor in the admissions process | 15 | |
| 6070017129 | Affirmative action | programs intended to make up for past discrimination by helping minority groups and women gain access to jobs and opportunities | 16 |
