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Civil rights

Policies designed to protect people against arbitrary or discriminatory treatment by government officials or individuals.

13th Amendment

The Constitutional Amendment ratified by the Civil War that forbade slavery and involuntary servitude.

Civil Rights Act of 1964

The law that made racial discrimination against any group in hotels, motels, and restaurants illegal to forbade many forms of job discrimination.

Suffrage

The legal right to vote, extended to African Americans by the Fifteenth Amendment, to women by the 19th Amendment, and to people over the age of 18 by the 26th amendment.

Poll tax

Small taxes levied on the right to vote that often fell due at a time of year when poor African-American sharecroppers had the least cash on hand.

White primary

One of the means used to discourage African American voting that permitted political parties in the heavily Democratic South to exclude African Americans from primary elections, thus depriving them of voice in the real contests.

24th Amendment

The Constitutional Amendment passed in 1964 that declared poll taxes illegal in federal elections.

Voting Rights Act of 1965

The law designed to help and formal and informal barriers to African American suffrage. Under the law, hundreds of thousands of African Americans were registered and the number of African American elected officials increased dramatically.

19th Amendment

The Constitutional Amendment adopted in 1920 that guarantees women the right to vote.

Equal Rights Amendment

A constitutional amendment originally introduced in Congress in 1923 and passed by Congress in 1972, stating that "equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex."

Affirmative action

A policy designed to give special attention to or compensatory treatment for members of some previously disadvantaged group.

15th Amendment

The Constitutional Amendment adopted in 1870 to extended suffrage to African Americans.