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Chapter 11: Civil Rights Section 2: Equal Justice under Law

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Main Idea The Fourteenth Amendment was designed to bolster civil rights by requiring states to guarantee to freed slaves “the equal protection of the laws.” However, African Americans and women still struggled to win equal treatment in American society.

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Focus Questions What is meant by equal protection of the law? What civil rights laws were passed after the Civil War, and why did they fail to end segregation? How did women fight for and win voting rights? What events began to roll back racial and ethnic segregation in the United States?

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