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14th Amendment
The 14th Amendment specified who were legal citizens of the united states and their protections under the law. It was mainly designed to grant citizenship and protect the civil liberties of the recently freed slaves. Besides citizenship the 14th Amendment didn't give full rights to women, which they did not like. -
Thurgood Marshall
Marshall ended legal segregation in the U.S. He won Supreme Court victories breaking the color line in housing, transportation and voting, which overturned the Separate but Equal apartheid of American life in the first half of the century. Marshall also won a very important legal case in the century which was the Brown v. Board of Education case, This case ended the legal separation of black and white children in public schools. -
Colored Waiting Rooms
Alot of places were segregated they had signs that read "colored people waiting room" and"Whites only". Most of the colored waiting rooms were not very comfortable or clean. The "Whites Only" waiting rooms were heated for cold weather and had more widely spaced and more comfortable seating. -
Segregated School House
Segregated School Houses were used to separate black and white kids. Blacks had their own school and Whites had theirs. The slogan that they used was "seperate but equal”. The Supreme Courts case called Plessy v. J.H. Ferguson which was what caused the legal seperation of the races, said that separate but equal facilities did not violate the U.S. Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment. -
Black Women Voting
The14th amendment was used to try and get equality for women. It mainly focused on male voting rights so the womens rights advocate used it to support there citizenship. Susan B. Anthony, was a womens suffrage supporter who was arrested for attempting to cast a ballot. They argued that woman shouldn't have only half citizenship, it should be either all or none. The supreme court argued that voting was not one of the priveleges and immunities of citizenship. -
Protest Against Integration
The whites wanted to keep segregation so they protested against integration. This all started when a little girl named linda brown didnt want to walk the 5 miles to her school but just wanted to walk 1 mile to the school closest to her. In Brown versus Board of Education case the Supreme Court declared that those separate educational facilities are “unequal” making Jim Crowe laws anywhere in the nation illegal. -
Women in the Workplace
An executive order required that every level of federal service offer equal opportunities for women he established a program to start this action. Although The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was perceived as giving women more freedom in the workplace and a right to expect equal treatment. This stated that an employer could not refuse, limit, segregate or classify an employee because of their race,religion,color,sex etc. The 14th Amendments equal protection clause also protects women in workplaces. -
Disabled person in the workplace
They came up with the Americans Disability act(ADA) which prohibits discrimination because of a persons disabilty in the workplace which is similar to the civil rights act of 1964.
