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14th Amendment
the right to vote shall not be denied an account to vote. -
15th Amendment
Granted African American men the right to vote -
Period: to
Plessy v. Ferguson
"equal but separate" -
NAACP is founded
Established to respond to the ongoing violence against black Americans. -
The 1st women suffrage Amendment was introduced in Congress, but was defeated
Denied women's right to vote -
19th Amendment
Granted women the right to vote -
Shelly v Kraemer
Curt ruled that enforcement of racially restrictive covenants were violation of the 15th Amendment -
Brown v. Board of Education
Separating children in public school on the basis of race was unconstitutional. -
Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat
Rosa Bus refused to give up her bus seat to a white man -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. -
Congress passes the 1st Civil Rights Act
Prohibits discrimination on face, color religion, sex, or national origin -
NOW(National Organization of women)
Founded by a group of activists who wanted to end sex discrimination -
Green v. Country School Board of New Kent Country
Court held that freedom of choice plans were unconsituinal when they failed to result in a racially nondiscriminatory, unitary school system -
Swann v. Charlotte- Mecklenburg Board of Education
Charlotte charged with maintaining segregation public school -
Proposition 209- California
Prohibit state government insitutions from considering sex, race, ethnicity, in the areas of public employment, public education.