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In 1820 the Missouri compromise was passed through Congress, which abolished slavery in Missouri. Dredd Scott was a slave from Missouri but from 1933 to 1943 lived in the free state of Illinois. When Scott moved back to Missouri in 1943 he filed for suit in Missouri that because he lived in a free territory he was a free man. Scott took his case to the supreme court where it was decided that slaves were not US citizens and that under the 5th amendment, Slaves were property. -
The 13th amendment abolished slavery and indentured servitude in the United States except for punishment of a crime someone has been convicted of. -
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the law -
no matter race, color, or previous condition of servitude no state or the US government shall abridge your right to vote -
The Jim Crow Era was the time period between late 19th century and 20th century where local and state governments made laws to prohibit African Americans from voting and enforced racial segregation
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in 1892 Homer Plessy who is 1/8th African American was removed from a white train car and forced to sit in the blacks only car. in 1896 the government the US government unanimously decided the separate but equal which basically made it segregation legal -
The 19th amendment gave women the right the vote after a decades long protest from women -
a landmark US supreme court that deemed laws that segregated schools were unconstitutional, this also overturned the Plessy v Ferguson " separate but equal" clause -
Affirmative action, also known as positive discrimination, involves sets of policies and practices within a government or organization seeking to include particular groups based on their gender, race, sexuality, creed or nationality in areas in which such groups are underrepresented
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the civil rights act prohibited the discrimination of American citizens on the basis of color, race, gender, sex, religion or national origin -
President Lydon B. Johnson signed laws into effect that overcome local and state governments from prohibiting African Americans to vote and allowing African Americans to exercise their 15th Amendment rights -
the Supreme Court of the United States holding that the administrators of estates cannot be named in a way that discriminates between sexes -
the equal right amendment guarantees equal rights to all American citizens regardless of sex, many believed it would helped in divorces, employment, and other matters -
uni of Cali vs Bakke is a dispute of whether preferential treatment of minorities reduces opportunities for whites, although it does not violate the constitution. -
was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that upheld, in a 5–4 ruling, the constitutionality of a Georgia sodomy law criminalizing oral and anal sex in private between consenting adults, in this case with respect to homosexual sodomy -
ADA prohibits discrimination of disabled people in jobs, school, and pretty much very public place -
the motor voter act of 1993 set regulation requirements for voting, section 5 specifically requires DMVs to offer state voter registration -
overturned Bowers vs Hardwick which made it unconstitutional to criminalize consensual unprotected sexual acts -
the Supreme Court of the United States which ruled that the fundamental right to marry is guaranteed to same-sex couples by both the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution.