civil rights

By jadaparris

  • 13 th amendment

    this amendment officially outlaws slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime

  • 14th amendment

    considered one of the reconstruction amendments. it has three clauses , the citizenship, due process, and equal protection.

  • 15th amendment

    provents each government in the united states from denying a citizen the right to vote

  • plessy v. ferguson

    this required racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrin of seperate but equal

  • 19th amendment

    prohibites any united states citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex

  • executive order of 1948

    abolished racial segregation in the armed forces

  • brown v. board of education

    declared state laws establishing seperate public schools for black and white studets unconstitutional

  • rosa parks refuses to give uo her seat

    rosa parks refused to give up her seat to a white man even tho she was sitting in her appropriate section of the bus

  • montgomery bus boycott

    this started after rosa parks got arrested for not givig up her seat it lasted until december 20 1956 many african americans did not talke bus transportation to prove their point

  • civil rights act

    ensure that all americans could exercise their right to vote

  • 24th amendement

    prohibites both congress and the state from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll taax or other types of tax

  • civil rights act

    outlawed major forms of discrimination against african americans and women

  • voting rights act

    outlawed discrimnation voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of african americans in the united states

  • civil rights act

    provided equal housing opprotunities regardless of race, creed, or national orgin