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13th Amendment
The 13th Amendment is important because it was what abolished slavery. This is also important because it brought in the era of extreme racism. A fun fact is that Mississippi was the last state to approve it. -
14th Amendment
This amendment is important because it gave former slaves citizenship and equal protection under the law. This is important because it took a major step from counting slaves only as 3/5 a person to a full fledge citizen. -
15th amendment
The 15th amendment protected the right to vote for minorities. This is important because this was a major step in the Civil Rights process and would setup universal sufferage later on. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
This court case is imprortant because it created segregation in schools, and also added the term "seperate but equal". It was overturn in Brown vs.Board of Education. -
19th Amendment
The 19th amendment is a very important amendment to the constitution as it gave women the right to vote in 1920. The movement to allow women the right to vote through the 19th amendment was the Suffrage movement. Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Stanton had major roles in the Suffrage movement. -
Equal Rights Amendment
The Equal Rights Amendment was important because it made women equal under -
Literacy Test
Literacy Test were important because it was one of the main ways the Southern States discouraged African Americans from voting. They were test that were stupid hard and were given to African Americans to see if they could read. -
Korematsu Vs. United States
This is important because it gave the president the power to put Japanese Americans in prison camps during the war. -
Brown vs. Board of education
This case is important because it overturned Plessy vs Ferguson. This allowed black and white childern to go to school together. -
Jim Crow Laws
Jime Crow laws were a set of laws from the late 1870s to 1965 that promoted segregation. These are important because they are what really drove people to demand equal rights in the USA. -
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Montgomery Bus Boycot
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a protest by the African-Americans about the buses in the Montgomery area. The buses had a policy that white people sat at the front and African-Americans sat at the back. The African-Americans were angry because they couldn't walk through the White's. -
Ruby Bridges
Ruby Bridges is an American Civil rights activist known for being the first African American to attend an all-white elementary school in the south. -
24th amendment
This amendment abolished poll taxes. This is important because it allowed poorer slaves in the south to vote in elections. This inturn allowed them to get more representation . -
Poll Taxes
Poll Taxes are when citizens would have to pay a fee and take a literacy test in order to vote. 24th amendment ended that law on January 23rd, 1964. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson, prohibited discrimination in public places, provided for the integration of schools and other public facilities, and made employment discrimination illegal. This document was the most sweeping civil rights legislation since Reconstruction -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Voting Rights of Act of 1965 is important because it prohibited discrimination when it comes to voting. It also gave the right to vote to all minorities. -
Affirmative Action
This is important because it promomted equal employment, but it also created a problem because people were getting into positions when other people were more experience -
Loving V. Virignia
Loving V. Virignia declared that banning marraiges between interracial couples was unconsitutional . This is important because it was a major victory for civil rights activist. This will also be a stepping stone for gay marriage agruements. -
Robert Kennedy Speech in Indianapolis upon death of MLK
Amid the tragedy of the assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King on Thursday, April 4th, 1968, an extraordinary moment in American political history occurred as Robert F. Kennedy, younger brother of slain President John F. Kennedy, broke the news of King's death to a large gathering of African Americans that evening in Indianapolis, Indiana. -
Reed vs. Reed
Married couple fighting over money after their son died. State law said it should go to the man strictly because he is a man. Supreme Court ruled that was a discrimination against women and a violation of the equal protection clause. Very large victory for women’s rights -
Regents of University of California vs. Bakke
in Regents of University of California v. Bakke (1978), the Supreme Court ruled that a university's use of racial "quotas" in its admissions process was unconstitutional, but a school's use of "affirmative action" to accept more minority applicants was constitutional in some circumstances In sum, racial quotas are always unconstitutional, but affirmative action programs may be constitutional if race is considered as one of many admission factors and used to remedy past findings of discrimination -
Bowers vs. Hardwick
A gay male was criminally charged for having sexual intercourse with another male in the privacy of his home. -
Americans with Disabilites Act
Federal comprehensive civil rights law that prohibits the discrimination of anyone with a mental or physical disability. The ADA’s voice was first heard when communities all over the USA were being protested for unwillingly setting up barriers excluding them from participating in the most simple tasks. -
Lawerence vs. Texas
This is important because it pretty much legalized same- sex sex. This also struck down several other state's laws against same-sex sex. -
Fisher vs.Texas
This is important because this got rid of affirmative action when admitting students. This is important becasue it allowed all students to be treated equal. -
Indiana and Wisconsin Gay Marriage Case
This is important because it is one of the major cases that a appeals court has struck down. This also is causing the Supreme court to take notice and agrue it.
