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  2. History of civil rights in the United States - Wikipedia

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    White opposition to black voter registration was so intense in Mississippi that Freedom Movement activists concluded that all of the state's civil rights organizations had to unite in a coordinated effort to have any chance of success. In February 1962, representatives of SNCC, CORE, and the NAACP formed the Council of Federated Organizations ...

  3. Civil rights movement (1865–1896) - Wikipedia

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    Freedmen voting in New Orleans, 1867. Reconstruction lasted from Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863 to the Compromise of 1877. [1] [2]The major issues faced by President Abraham Lincoln were the status of the ex-slaves (called "Freedmen"), the loyalty and civil rights of ex-rebels, the status of the 11 ex-Confederate states, the powers of the federal government needed to ...

  4. History of the United States (1815–1849) - Wikipedia

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    The Perfectionist movement, led by John Humphrey Noyes, founded the utopian Oneida Community in 1848 with fifty-one devotees, in Oneida, New York. Noyes believed that the act of final conversion led to absolute and complete release from sin.

  5. Personal liberty laws - Wikipedia

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    An Act further to protect personal liberty (Maine, 1855) An Act to secure freedom and the rights of citizenship to persons in this State (New Hampshire, 1857) An Act to prevent kidnapping (Ohio, 1857) An Act to prevent Slaveholding and Kidnapping in Ohio (Ohio, 1857) Of the Writ of Habeas Corpus Relative to Fugitive Slaves (Wisconsin, 1857)

  6. Civil right acts in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The act was passed by the 42nd United States Congress and signed into law by United States President Ulysses S. Grant on April 20, 1871. The act was the last of three Enforcement Acts passed by the United States Congress from 1870 to 1871 during the Reconstruction Era to combat attacks upon the suffrage rights of African Americans. The statute ...

  7. Slave Trade Act - Wikipedia

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    Slave Trade Act is a stock short title used for legislation in the United Kingdom and the United States that relates to the slave trade. The "See also" section lists other Slave Acts, laws, and international conventions which developed the concept of slavery, and then the resolution and abolition of slavery , including a timeline of when ...

  8. Universal manhood suffrage - Wikipedia

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    Most African-American men remained excluded; though the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1870, upheld their voting rights, they were denied the right to vote in many places for another century until the Civil Rights Movement gained passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 through Congress.

  9. Freedom of movement under United States law - Wikipedia

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    The Supreme Court has acknowledged that freedom of movement is closely related to freedom of association and to freedom of expression. Strong constitutional protection for the right to travel may have significant implications for state attempts to limit abortion rights , ban or refuse to recognize same-sex marriages , and enact anti-crime or ...