Civil Rights act and Voting Rights

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Ended legal public school segregation.

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Brown vs. the Board of Education

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This act ended voter suppression tactics like literacy tests and grandfather clauses

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Voting Rights Act of 1965

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Outlawed racial discrimination in the workplace and in public places, including schools.

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Civil Rights Act of 1964

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Separation of two or more races based on skin color

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segregation

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Enforced racial segregation in the South; all were enacted in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by white Democratic-dominated state legislatures after the Reconstruction period.

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Jim Crow Laws

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Gave all male United States citizens over the age of 21 the right to vote

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15th Amendment

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Brown v. Board of Education was famous because the court ruled that it is illegal to segregate schools.

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to segregate schools.

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After the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed, it was no longer legal to deny someone of a job because of their race.

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deny someone of a job because of their race.

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Which president signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law?

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Lyndon B. Johnson

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Forcing people to pay for the right to vote was called a _________?

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Poll Tax