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Made slavery illegal
13th Amendment
Said all Americans, regardless of race, get equal protection under the law
14th Amendment
Gave all men the right to vote
15th Amendment
Integration
Desegregation
Made segregation legal
Plessy v Ferguson
Take away ability to participate in political process (can't vote)
Disenfranchisement
Fee to vote
Poll Tax
Test you must pass to vote
Literacy Test
Peaceful resistance to immoral laws
Civil Disobedience
Protest in restaurants
Sit-In
Refuse to ride a bus or purchase something
Boycott
Talking a politician into a law
Lobbying
Using the courts to get a bad law made illegal
Litigation
Integrated bus rides in the South
Freedom Rides
