CIVIL RIGHTS

By jackhennek

  • Dred Scoot vs. Sanford

    Blacks cannot be citizens

  • 13th amendment

    Abolishment of Slavery

  • 14th amendment

    Introduced the Equal Protection clause.

  • 15th amendment

    Voting rights cannot be denied based on race.

  • Poll Taxes

    Poll taxes were first introduced in the 1890's, they added a tax to voting, disenfranchising many, mostly black Americans.

  • Plessy vs. Ferguson

    Upheld separate but equal, segregation remained legal.

  • 19th amendment

    Suffrage for women, voting cannot be denied on account of sex.

  • ERA amendment first proposed in congress

    Congressmen first introduced the idea the ERA, which would remain in the public conscious for decades to come.

  • White Primary

    Whites only election, blacks cannot vote.

  • Affirmative Action is endorsed

    Truman endorsed an early type of affirmative action. "We must make the Federal government a friendly, vigilant defender of the rights and equalities of all Americans. And again, I mean all Americans." it had yet to be implemented.

  • Brown vs. Board of Education

    Separate but equal is inherently unequal, started desegregation.

  • 24th amendment

    Reaffirmed the right to vote, explicitly banned poll taxes.

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Banned discrimination in housing and hiring. among other fields.

  • Voting Rights act of 1965

    Federal oversight of elections to counter disenfranchisement .

  • Reed vs. Reed

    Men cannot be preferred to women and vice versa in regard to an estate and who gets the inheritance. No preference to sex.

  • Regents of the University of California v. Bakke

    Is Affirmative action legal? Yes as long as its not explicitly including race.

  • Bowers vs. Hardwick

    Upheld Georgia sodomy law.

  • Americans with disabilities act

    Prohibits discrimination based on disability

  • Motor Voter Act

    Legislation that required state governments to allow registration when a qualifying voter applied for or renewed their drivers license or applied for social services

  • Lawarence vs. Texas

    Criminalization of consensual adult sexual activities is unconstitutional.

  • Oberfell vs. Hodges

    Same sex marriage is legalized and must be recognized