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History of civil rights in the United States

  • Fourteenth Amendment to the United States ConstitutionOn the 18th of June 1866, both houses of Congress passed a concurrent resolution requesting President Andrew Johnson to transmit the Fourteenth Amendment…
  • African AmericansThe first African slaves in what is now the United States arrived in the early 16th century. Africans were among Juan Ponce de León's 1513 voyage that landed…
  • Native Americans in the United StatesThe Eurasian migration to the Americas began over millennia via Beringia, a land bridge connecting Siberia and Alaska. Archaeological evidence suggests these…
  • Reconstruction eraOn the 9th of April 1865, General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House.
  • Civil rights movementsCivil rights movements emerged as a worldwide series of political campaigns for equality before the law, peaking in intensity during the 1960s.