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  1. 6 days ago · Board of Education, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that racial segregation in public schools violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. The 1954 decision declared that separate educational facilities for white and African American students were inherently unequal.

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  2. May 20, 2024 · What is the Johnson Amendment? Introduced to the U.S. tax code in 1954, the Johnson Amendment forbids 501(c)(3) charitable organizationsincluding churches—from participating or intervening in political campaigns for or against any candidate for public office.

  3. Jun 1, 2024 · Voting Rights Act, U.S. legislation (1965) that aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote under the Fifteenth Amendment (1870) to the United States Constitution. It was largely gutted by Supreme Court decisions in 2013 and 2021.

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  4. 2 days ago · In May 1954, the Supreme Court issued a unanimous 9–0 decision in favor of the Browns. The Court ruled that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal," and therefore laws that impose them violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

  5. 3 days ago · Congress approved an amendment banning political activity from tax-exempt organizations, including charities and churches, authored by then-Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson in 1954.

  6. 5 days ago · The 13 th Amendment did not seem to provide Congress with sufficient new powers to protect freedmen and others from the black codes and unequal enforcement of the laws happening under Johnson’s restored state governments. How could the U.S. Constitution be amended to ensure that the state governments provided justice and the protection of ...

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  8. May 29, 2024 · American civil rights movement, mass protest against racial segregation and discrimination in the southern U.S. that came to national prominence during the mid-1950s. Its roots were in the centuries-long efforts of enslaved Africans and their descendants to abolish slavery and resist racial oppression.

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