The 15th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States ratified in 1870, prohibits federal or state governments from infringing on a citizen's right to vote "on account of race, color or previous servitude." ... The struggle for the right to vote, be accepted, attend the same schools and drink from the same water fountain as whites still has to be fought for in years to come. ... During the 1940's and 1950's, National Association for the Advancement of Color People, lawyer, Thurgood Marshall, appointed by President Lyndon Johnson as the first African American justice on t...

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This time saw blacks being forced to sit in the back of buses, drink from their own water fountains, being publicly humiliated in front of citizens as they were turned away from restaurants and other facilities that clearly stated no color people would be allowed to enter their premises. ...

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Hundreds of singing children filled the streets of downtown Birmingham police officers were sent with attack dogs and firefighters with high-pressure water hoses against the marchers. Scenes of young protesters being attacked by dogs and pinned against buildings by torrents of water from fire hoses were shown in newspapers and on televisions around the world. ...

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