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The 14th Amendment
This amendment was ratified after the Civil War during the Reconstruction Era. It clarified who are U.S. Citizen and how everyone has equal rights under the law. This amendment also clarified the issues regarding free slaves by stating that any claims regarding freed slaves is illegal and void. It was the first amendment to address all race in the U.S. as having equal rights under the law in favor of all races other than White (LII, "14th Amendment."). -
The 15th Amendment
This amendment gave the right to vote African American men by stating that a U.S. citizen’s rights can’t be denied no matter the race, color, or previous servitude. This amendment was very much opposed by White Southern, so they founded many ways to stops African Americans from voting. Almost a century later the dreams of every African American was able to be realized after a fighting though the poll taxes, literacy test, and more (loc, "Primary Documents in American History."). -
Plessy vs, Ferguson
This was a case from Louisiana between a passenger Homer Plessy who refused to sit in a Jim Crow Car and was triad before judge Ferguson of the Criminal court for New Orleans. This case was brought all the way to the Supreme Court because it was believed conflict with 13th-14th amendments, but the Supreme Court ruled Separate but Equal. This made segregation legal in all the states due to the un-clarity of the previous amendments (History, "Plessy vs. Ferguson."). -
The NAACP
The NAACP (the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) founded by in New York City, was of the first and most influential civil rights organization of the U.S. It focused on legal strategies to fight against civil rights issues regarding African Americans. They had called for federal anti-lynching laws and fought for segregation in public schools, which aid in the declaring the court ruled for the Plessy vs Ferguson case unconstitutional (History, "NAACP."). -
Te 19th Amendment
This Amendment gave the right to vote to all women citizens of the U.S., who have always been left out of anything involving politics. After the 15th Amendment gave the rights to vote to every male citizen no mater race or color, the women got angry because they were the only ones who couldn't vote.That then motivated them to start a movement that would grant them the right to vote and run for office (Carrie Fredericks, "Amendment Text and Explanation."). -
The Equal Rights Amendment
After the 19th Amendment was passed giving the right to vote to all U.S. Citizens, Alice Paul a feminist introduced the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) as the next big step to give equal justice under the law. The ERA stated that the rights guaranteed by the Constitution apply equally to all persons regardless of their sex. The women wanted to have the same rights as men and this Equal Rights Amendment was going to bring them there (weebly, "Women's Suffrage Movement.").
