Civil Rights

By LazarusD

  • Scott V. Sanford

    Dredd Scott was a slave from Misissipi his master and him went to a northen state that banned slavery. He resided in Illinois, although the court declared all negros or descendants of slaves as non-citizens.

  • Reconstruction and Reconstruction Amendments.

    13th Amendment,
    Adopted in 1865, abolishes slavery or Indentured servitude except in punishment of a crime.
    14th Amendment,
    Adopted in 1868, states all people born in the United States as citizens, requires due process of law, and requires equal protection to all people. (Equal Protection Clause)
    15th Amendment
    Adopted in 1870, prevents the denial of a citizen’s vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude. (grandfather clause)

  • Jim Crow Era

    Mass segregation in south, laws seperated whites from any colored race and colored objects/places were much less in quality.

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    Essentialy equal but seperate accomadations for whites and colored from Lousisana do not violate Equal Protection Clause. 7-1 decision in favor of Lousiana innocence.

  • 19th Amendment (Women's Suffrage)

    "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex."

  • Scottsboro Boys

    Nine black teenagers falsley accused of rape from two white women, according to the women on the train that both groups were attending. When really a fight between the group of blacks and a group of whites occured on the train and the blacks kicked the whites off the train. Eventually they were all agreed to be innocent.

  • George Stinney Case

    14 year old black boy who was executed by electric chair for being accused of the murder of two young white girls. There incrementing evidence was that "he said" where a 15 inch piece of metal that killed the two was.

  • Brown v. Board

    "Separate but equal educational facilities for racial minorities is inherently unequal violating the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment" Segregated schools gave minority children false self hate and made them believe they were less than what they really were.

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    This act prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex and national origin.

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    It was an act to enforce the fifteenth amendment of the Constitution.

  • Civil Rights Act of 1968

    The Civil Rights Act of 1968/ Fair Housing Act, part of legislation in the United States that provided for equal housing opportunities regardless of race, religion, or sex.

  • California v. Bakke (1978) & Gratz v. Bollinger (2003)

    Gratz V. Bollinger includes a student applying for Michigan Law School and she is not accepted in the school. She looks at the reason for acceptance in admission and one of them is race. Not solely race, but it is a consideration. Court sides with the school in a 5-4 decision saying this does not harm effect nonwhite applicants and doesn't. violate equal protection clause. Same thing for California V. Bake but instead the court makes a precedent for future cases that affirmitive action is legal.