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First Civil Rights Act
all citizens are equally protected by the law. -
14th amendment
All US born people are citizens of the united states -
15th Amendment
Gave all US men the right to vote -
Plessy V Ferguson
Sate decided that separate was constitutional, but only if it was equal in quality -
NAACP Founded
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People which was an organization that believed in equality for all. -
Women's suffrage was introduced to congress
Congress declined to expand enfranchisement into gender -
19th Amendment
Gave women the right to vote -
Shelly v Kramer
courts could not enforce racial covenants on real estate -
Brown V Board of Education
Case that decided that segregation in schools is unconstitutional -
Rosa parks refuses to give up her seat
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat causing her to be arrested. -
Civil rights act of 1964
outlawed discrimination and discrimination laws -
NOW formed
NOW stands for the national organization for women. Women's rights group. -
Green v. County School Board of New Kent County
Freedom of choice plan -
United States v. O'Brien
burnt his draft card at a court hose -
tinker v. des moines independent school district
Freedom of peaceful public symbolical protests -
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education
Aimed to speed up the school integration process -
Wisconsin V Yoder
Amish pulling 13-14 year olds out of school. -
Linmark v. Willingboro
A town prohibition on “For Sale” and “Sold” signs was unconstitutional. The ban was unreasonable restriction on the flow of commercial information. -
Proposition 209 – California
Prohibited public institutions from discriminating. -
good news club v. milford central school
Discriminating religion on public property