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13th Admendment
This admendment abolished slavery. Secretary of state William H. Seward proclaimed its adoption. It was the first of the three Reconstruction Amendments adopted following the American Civil War -
14th amndment
This amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws, and was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves following the American Civil War. -
15th Admendment
The 15th Amendment to the Constitution granted African American men the right to vote by declaring 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. -
Literacy Tests
This was a test giving to people mostly to blacks to see if they can vote. If you passes then you were able to vote. They gave test to blacks in the south and made them hard so they were not able to vote. -
Jim Crow
The Jim Crow laws were racial segregation state and local laws put into place after the Reconstruction period in Southern United States that continued in until 1965 mandating de jure racial segregation in all public facilities in the South -
Plessy Vs. Ferguson
This was a landmark United States Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal." -
Poll Taxes
They made you pay taxes when you vote. You just could walk in and vote. You hade to pay some sort of tax when you were voting. Nothing was free. -
19th Admendment
Before the 19th admendment Women were not allowed to vote. Women started to protes and soon the 19th admendment was passed so women were allowed to vote now. -
Korematsu Vs The United States
This was a landmark United States Supreme Court case concerning the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066, which ordered Japanese Americans into internment camps during World War II regardless of citizenship. -
Sweatt Vs. Painter
The case involved a black man, Heman Marion Sweatt, who was refused admission to the School of Law of the University of Texas, whose president was Theophilus Painter, on the grounds that the Texas State Constitution prohibited integrated education. -
Brown Vs. Board of Education
This was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. -
Montgomery us Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott, a seminal event in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. -
Affirmative Action
Arrrimative Action is a law that gives evryone equal rights in the work place. This makes sure they get the right pay and right treatmeant at work no matter who the are. -
24th Amendment
The 24th Amendment prohibits any tax charged to the people when trying to vote. Now the people can vote tax free -
Civil Rights Act 1964
Civil Rights Act of 1964 definition. A federal law that authorized federal action against segregation in public accommodations, public facilities, and employment. This led to a lot of people being made in the south. Mostly the whites. -
Voting Rights Act Of 1965
Voting Rights Act of 1965 definition. This was a law passed at the time of the civil rights movement. It eliminated various devices, such as literacy tests, that had traditionally been used to restrict voting by black people. -
Robert Kennedy Speech In Indianapolis Upon death of MLK
Robert Kennedy made a speech about hesring the knews that MLK had been shot and killed. People in the crowd were not expecting to hear that kind of news. -
Reed Vs. Reed
The Supreme Court ruled for the first time in Reed v. Reed that the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibited differential treatment based on sex. -
Regents of the University Of California Vs. Bakke
This was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States. It upheld affirmative action, allowing race to be one of several factors in college admission policy. -
Equal Rights Admendment
This was an andmendment to give all people in this country equal rights. No matter waht race, religion, or sex you were. You were going to be treated equaly in this country. -
Bowers Vs. Hardwick
This was a United States Supreme Court decision, overturned in 2003, that upheld, in a 5–4 ruling, the constitutionality of a Georgia sodomy law criminalizing oral and anal sex in private between consenting adults when applied to homosexuals. -
Americans With Disabilities Act
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is the nation's first comprehensive civil rights law helping the needs of people with disabilities, prohibiting discrimination in employment, public services, public accommodations, and telecommunications. -
Lawrence Vs. Texas
This was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court. In the 6–3 ruling the Court struck down the sodomy law in Texas and, by extension, invalidated sodomy laws in 13 other states, making same-sex sexual activity legal in every U.S. state and territory. -
Fisher Vs. Texas
This was a United States Supreme Court case concerning the affirmative action admissions policy of the University of Texas at Austin. -
Indiana Gay Rights
Since Oct. 7th, 2014 you are allowed to marrie your same sex partner here in Indiana. -
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott, a big event in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama.
