civil rights

By Cody A. Skipper

  • Dred Scott v. Sanford

    the Supreme Court finds that slaves are property, are not and cannot become citizens, and thus have no rights of citizenship, such as the right to sue.

  • 13th Amendment

    making slavery illegal.

  • 14th Amendment is ratified.

    entitlement of all people born or naturalized in the United States and increases federal power over the states to protect individual rights, while leaving the daily affairs of the states in their own hands.

  • 15th Amendment is ratified.

    guaranteeing that “race, color, or previous condition of servitude” will not be used to bar U.S. male citizens from voting. Tennessee will not ratify this amendment until 1997.

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality

  • 19th amendment

    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 sex.

  • Brown v. Board of Education

    the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional

  • civil rights act of 1964

    The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Provisions of this civil rights act forbade discrimination on the basis of sex, as well as, race in hiring, promoting, and firing.

  • voting rights act of 1965

    It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting

  • Reed v.s. Reed

    administrators of estates cannot be named in a way that discriminates between sexes.

  • title IX

    a federal civil rights law in the United States of America that was passed as part of the Education Amendments of 1972.

  • Regents of the Univ. of Cal. v. Bakke

    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.

  • Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990

    The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 or ADA is a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination based on disability