G1+Question+4

=As a group you will answer these 4 questions:=

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4)Who/what were the major figures, actions, successes, and set backs in the fight for equality for your group? =====

Rosa Parks, Dr. King, Harriet Tubman, etc.

Supreme Court case of Dred Scott v Sandford (1857) ruled that Congress lacked the power to prohibit slavery in its territories. Missouri Compromise of 1820 permitted slavery in Missouri but prohibited slavery north of
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//In the landmark Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court reverses Plessy v. Ferguson, declaring that "separate but equal" public education is unconstitutional//

Cite Your Sources:

http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/thirteenthamendment.html

http://www.pbs.org/thisfarbyfaith/timeline/p_4.html