civil rights

  • 14th Amendment

    this amendment granted all people born in the united states citizenship.
  • 15th amendment

    Passed by Congress February 26, 1869, and ratified February 3, 1870. This amendment was made to grant african american men the right to vote.
  • Congress passes the first Civil Rights Act

    was the first United States federal law to define citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law
  • The first Women’s Suffrage Amendment

    The Woman Suffrage Amendment, originally written by Susan B. Anthony and introduced in Congress in 1878
  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    Court makes a critical court decision regarding racial segregation in rail cars.
  • ncaap

    civil rights organization
  • 19th amendment

    granted women the right to vote
  • Shelly v. Kramer

    Court case that struck down racially restrictive housing covenants.
  • Brown v. Board of Education

    Court case that ruled that state-sanctioned segregation of public schools was a violation of the 14th amendment and was therefore unconstitutional.
  • Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat

    helped initiate the civil rights movement in the United States when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    prohibited discrimination in public places
  • NOW

    NOW is a feminist organization
  • Green v. County School Board of New Kent County

    the case was about school desegregation
  • Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education

    was a landmark United States Supreme Court case dealing with the busing of students to promote integration in public schools.
  • Proposition 209

    amended the state constitution to prohibit state governmental institutions from considering race, sex, or ethnicity