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13th Amendment
this ended slavery and involuntary servitude
December 6, 1865 slavery was mostly populari the south and when the prohibition of it came to be, southerners were outraged. They wouldn’t have their main moneymaker. -
14 amendment
this gave equal citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws to all people. This was in response to the end of slavery and the American civil war. In the south most people didn’t like this amendment, because they felt as if the slaves were their property and the government had taken that away from them. Southerners felt superior to others -
15th amendment
this amendment said that a person could not be turned away from voting because of their race, color, or if they had been a slave. Even though this was passed most African Americans would be discouraged to vote. There were multiple test and poll taxes that were enforced on them. -
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Jim Crow
1876-1960 Jim Crow laws were the segregation for black and white peoples usage of public schools, places, transportation, restrooms, restaurants and drinking fountains. They were lawed constitutional because they had to be same and equal. In reality they weren't the same and African Americans were still treated unfairly. -
Sweatt v. Painter
• A U.S. Supreme Court case that successfully challenged the "separate but equal" doctrine of racial segregation established by the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
Homer A. Plessy v. Ferguson was argued in the Supreme Court of the United States. May 18, 1896: In a 7 to 1 decision the "separate but equal" provision of public accommodations by state governments was found to be constitutional under the Equal Protection Clause. -
19th Amendment
The congress passed the law giving women the right to vote. this was a hughe accomplishment for them and was the start of the progress in equal opportunity that the women's sufferage movement caused. this was only the begining, because women still werent equal to men. -
Korematsu v. United States
the decision was significance because the United States had the right to move relocate someone based on their race. The case was also based off of Individual Rights. But over the time period the case was eventually overturned in 1983. -
Brown v. Board of Education
marks a defining moment in the history of the United States. On that day, the Supreme Court declared the doctrine of “separate but equal” unconstitutional. Brown itself was not a single case, but rather a coordinated group of five lawsuits against school districts in Kansas, South Carolina, Delaware, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. -
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
after the arrest of Rosa Parks on December 1,1955, the Montgomery bus boycott was a 13-month long protest were blacks refused to ride the bus . Them not riding the bus had a economic impact in the south. They carpooled and or walked to get where they needed.it ended when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional -
Ruby Bridges
she is known for being the first black child to attend an all-white elementary school. this occured in the south at William Frantz Elementary School. she passed a test saying she was allowed in the school, -
Affirmative Action
the action has been both praised and pilloried as an answer to racial inequality which is significance to people who has been shunned based on their race. It states that you “not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, creed, color, or national origin.” -
Poll Tax
a poll tax was used as deterant e of the ability to vote. This tax emerged in some southern states as part of the Jim Crow laws that were put into place. this kept poor blacks from voting. eventhoug it was legal for blacks to vote most didn't becasue they couln't afford it. -
24th amendment
This amendment ended the unfairness in voting. It ended the poll tax that was in place in most southern states. The poll tax was created to prevent poor African Americans from voting. It became illegal for congress of states to impose these on people. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The United States prohibited the dicrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. this means youcan cant not get hired or fired because of one of the reasons listed above. We all have the same rights -
Literacy Test
this also was another way to keep blacks from voting. Most were illterate and didnt understand much english due to the fact that they were never i school. most wouldnt pass and was turned away from voting. -
Voting rights act of 1965
it prohibits racial discrimination in voting. President Johnson signed it. noone is to be treated differently in voting because of their reace -
Loving v. Virginia
this case was argued on April 10, 1967 and struck the land mark for interracial marriage. It also inspired by the civil rights movement. The couple that was involved in this case eventually pled guilty to violating the law, and rather than spend a year in jail, they agreed to leave the state for 25 years. -
Robert Kennedy INdy speech upon MLK death
He was campaigning for the 1968 Democratic presidential nomination when he heard about the death of Martin Luther King Jr. He was scared to give the speech fearing that they would riot the street. but instead her did and remined them of what MLK stood for. He is claimed to be ther reaso for no riots in Indianapolis that night. -
Reed v. Reed
• Argued on October 19, 1971- Decided on November 22, 1971. was an Equal 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, the 14th states that you can discriminate against based on gender and the court reasoned that "it thus establishes a classification subject to scrutiny under the Equal Protection Clause” -
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
• The case involves the admissions program to the University of California Medical School at Davis. Out of an entering class of 100, UC set aside 16 spaces for students admitted through a “special admissions program” for minority applicants. Supreme Court on appeal from Date: Decided in 1978. -
Bowers v. Hardwick
• Argued June 30, 1986, and decided on March 30, 1986. The Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution does not protect the right of gay adults to engage in private, consensual sodomy. “Georgia law was legal, and that the charges against Hardwick would stand. The Court first argued that the fundamental "right to privacy," as protected by the Constitution's Due Process Clause against the states, does not confer "the right upon homosexuals to engage in sodomy." -
Americans with Disabilities Act
The Americans with Disabilities Act is a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination based on disability. this gives diable americans rights, according to the constitution. -
Lawrence v. Texas
• Argued March 26, 2003-Decided June 26, 2003. The Court of Appeals considered defendants’ federal constitutional arguments under both the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment. Significance was invalidated sodomy laws in thirteen other states, making same-sex sexual activity legal in every U.S. state and territory. -
Indiana’s Gay Rights Court Battle
The US Supreme Court’s landmark June 2013 decision overturned parts of the Defense of Marriage Act, a federal law that said marriage can only exist between a man and a woman. Sates are now recognizing that gay marriage is now being taken over and that it is unconstitutional. People are fighting the government to stand up for their equal rights. -
Fisher v. Texas
The Fisher decision is a significant shift in the way courts in Texas previously viewed the use of race in university admissions. Race had an appropriate role to play in the picking of admissions. So the women sued the school for violating their Equal Protection Clause and their 14th Amendment. -
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