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Dred Scott vs. Sanford
The case persisted through several courts before arriving at the US supreme court which gave momentum to the anti-slavery movement and served as a stepping stone to the civil war. -
13th Amendment
Abolished slavery and involuntary servitude except as a punishment for crime. -
14th Amendment
Granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and slaves who had been emancipated after the civil war. -
15th Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote by any means. -
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Uphold the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as they segregated facilities were equal in quality. -
19th Amendment
Prohibits the states or the federal government from denying the right to vote of American citizens based on sex. -
White Primaries
One method used by white democrats to disenfranchise most African American and other minority voters. -
Brown vs Board of education
The court ruled that US state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional. -
Civil rights act of 1964
Outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, or national origin. it prohibits unequal application of voter registration requirements and in schools. -
24th Amendment
Prohibits both congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or any type of tax. -
Poll Taxes
A tax levied as a fixed sum on every liable individual on every adult without reference to income. -
Voting rights act of 1965
Landmark piece of federal legislation in the united states that prohibits racial discrimination against voting. -
Reed vs Reed
Equal rights protection case in the united states in which the supreme court ruled that the administrators of estates cannot be named in a way that discriminates between sexes. -
Equal rights amendment
Designed to guarantee equal legal rights for all American citizens regardless of sex -
Regents of the university of california vs Bakke
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, 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. -
Bowers v. Hardwick
Bowers v. Hardwick, is a United States Supreme Court decision that upheld, in a 5–4 ruling, the constitutionality of a Georgia sodomy law criminalizing oral and anal sex in private between consenting adults, in this case with respect to homosexual sodomy, though the law did not differentiate between homosexual sodomy and heterosexual sodomy. -
Americans with disabilities act
A civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities. -
Lawrence v. Texas
Lawrence v. Texas, was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that American laws prohibiting private homosexual activity between consenting adults are unconstitutional. -
Obergefell v. Hodges
Obergefell v. Hodges, is a landmark 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 by both the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
