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Blacks in the United States were granted rights by the Constitution with the passing of
Amendment 13: Abolition of Slavery (ratified on December 6, 1865)
Amendment 14: Civil Rights (Citizenship / ratified on July 9, 1865)
Amendment 15: Black Suffrage (Voting Rights / ratified on February 2, 1870)
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a United States law that bans discrimination because of a person's color, race, national origin, religion, or sex. The rights of this law includes: a person's right to seek employment; vote; and use hotels, parks restaurants, and other public places.
The Civil Rights Act also forbids discrimination by any program that receives money from the federal government.
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Beauno black people did not have the same rights as the white people. This was called of segregation.
Free Black Americans did, most of whom lived above the Mason-Dixon line. Most African Americans in the south were slaves, and did not have rights until the Emancipation Proclamation, and, later, the 14th Amendment were passed into law.
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