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15th Amendment
The 15th Amendment to the US constitution mentions that 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 race, color, or previous condition of servitude. -
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Dred Scott v. Sandford was a landmark decision of the US supreme court. In which the court held that the US constitution was not meant to include american citizenship for black people -
13th Amendment
The 13th amendment to the United States constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude except as a punishment for a crime. The amendment was passed by Congress on January 31 1865 and ratified by the required 27 of the 36 states on December 18th. -
14th Amendment
The 14th amendment to the US constitution ratified in 1868 granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States including former enslaved people and guaranteed all citizens "equal protection of the laws" -
Plessy v. Ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark 1896 US Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the "separate but equal" doctrine.The case was an incident in which an african american train passenger Homer Plessy refused to sit in a car for black people. -
19th Amendment
The 19th Amendment to the US constitution granted American women the right ti vote, a right known as women's suffrage, and was ratified on August 18, 1920 ending almost a century of protest. -
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
The Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was a landmark 1954 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional Brown v. the Board of Education had a big roll in the civil rights movement and helped established the "separate-but-equal" education and other services were not in fact equal at all. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark civil rights and labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, and later sexual orientation and gender identity. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
The voting rights act of 1965 outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting this "act to enforce the fifteenth amendment to the constitution" was signed into law 95 years after the amendment was ratified. -
Reed v. Reed
The Reed v. Reed was a decision of the US Supreme Court ruling that the administrators of estates cannot be named in a was that discriminates between sexes. -
Title IX
Title IX is a federal civil rights law in the United States of American that was passed as a part of the Education Amendments of 1972. It prohibits sex-based discrimination in any school or other educational program that receives federal money. -
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
The Regents of the University of California v. Bakke was a case about weather the University of Cali. violated the 14th amendments equal protection clause and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by practicing an affirmative action policy that resulted in the repeated rejection of Bakke's application for admission to its medical school. -
American's with Disabilities Act
The ADA was first introduced in the 100th Congress. The American's with Disabilities Act bans discrimination on the basis of disability in the areas of employment, public accommodation, public services, as well as transportation. -
Obergefell v. Hodges
The Obergefell v. Hodges is a civil rights case in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the fundamental right to marry is guaranteed to same-sex couples. Both the Due Process Clause and Equal Protection clause of the 14th amendment to the US constitution.