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Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
The 13th admenment was Passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and officaly valid on December 6, 1865. The 13th amendment abolished slavery in the United States and provides that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. -
14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Civil Rights
The 14th admendment of the Constitution was ratified on July 9, 1868, and granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included former slaves recently freed. -
15th Amendment to the Constitution
the 15th admendment to the Constitution granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." Although ratified on February 3, 1870, the promise of the 15th Amend. -
Plessy v. Ferguson “separate but equal”
lessy (P) attempted to sit in an all-white railroad car. After refusing to sit in the black railway carriage car, Plessy was arrested for violating an 1890 Louisiana statute that provided for segregated “separate but equal” railroad accommodations. They went to trail questioning “separate but equal” The decision was handed down by a vote of 7 to 1 with the majority opinion.