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The Constitution was not meant to include citizenship for black descent regardless if they are free or enslaved. Even if they move to a free state they are still considered enslaved. -
Abolish slavery in the United States. Only applies as punishment for a crime. -
All people born in the US are subject for jurisdiction. No state shall enforce laws that abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the US. -
Establishment of the laws mandating separate but equal accommodations for African Americans. Racial segregation laws didn't violate the constitution as long as facilities for each race were equal. -
Allowed women the right to vote. Women suffrage movement was one reason why this amendment has passed. -
Primary elections held in Southern United States where only white people were permitted to participate. -
Established the precedent that "separate-but-equal" in schools about the racial segregation in public schools in which violated by the 14th Amendment. -
Helps protect people with employment/resources no matter their race, gender, sexuality, ethnic origin, and disability. No discrimination with employment opportunities. -
This amendment abolished the poll taxation on all federal elections. The poll tax caused voters to pay a couple of dollars in order to be able to cast a vote. -
A condition put towards people that vote. Doesn't matter how much income someone makes or resources but rather a taxation put on every adult that votes for reassurance. -
Prohibits discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. Provisions of this civil rights act forbade discrimination based on sex and race in hiring, promoting, and firing. -
Landmark piece in federal legislation that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. It helped expand the 14th and 15th amendment. It helped stop the barriers on the African Americans. -
Prohibits discrimination in the voting rights of citizens based on "race, color, or previous condition of servitude." -
A court ruling that the administrators of estates cannot be named in a way that discriminates between sexes. -
The Supreme Court case held that a university’s admissions criteria used race as a definite and exclusive basis for an admission decision violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. -
A proposed amendment to the US Constitution states that civil rights may not be denied based on one's sex. -
Bowers v. Hardwick, a legal case, was decided on June 30, 1986, in which the U.S. Supreme Court upheld (5–4) a Georgia state law banning sodomy. The court overturned the ruling 17 years later in Lawrence v. Texas (2003), which struck down a Texas state law that had criminalized homosexual sex between consenting adults. -
The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, or ADA, is a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination based on disability. -
The motor voter law was a bill passed by congress in 1963 to make it easier for americans to register to vote. The law requires states to allow voter registration by mail, when one applies for a driver's license, and at state offices that serve the disabled or poor. -
Civil rights case by the United States Supreme Court. The Court struck down the sodomy law in Texas in a 6–3 decision and, by extension, invalidated sodomy laws in 13 other states, making same-sex sexual activity legal in every U.S. state and territory. -
Surpreme court ruled 5-4 that state bans on same-sex marriage and on recognizing same-sex marriages duly performed in other jurisdictions are unconstitutional under the due process and equal protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.