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Dred v. Sanford
A slave (Dred Scott) fought for his freedom under the Missouri Compromise. Means slaves are not citizens under the U.S. Constitution. Question - Can a slave be considered a citizen and as such become entitled to all the rights, privileges and immunities granted to citizens under the United States Constitution? Verdict - The court held the MIssouri Compromise unconstitutional -
Emancipation Proclamation
The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free. -
14th Amendment
Granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States, including former slaves who had just been free -
15th Amendment
Granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be ". -
Plessy v. Ferguson
Plessy, who was seven-eighths Caucasian, took a seat in a "whites only" car of a Louisiana train. He refused to move to the car reserved for blacks and was arrested. Is Louisiana's law mandating racial segregation on its trains an unconstitutional infringement on both the privileges and immunities and the equal protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment? No, the state law is within constitutional boundaries. -
Grandfather Clause
The grandfather clause was a law that said anyone whose grandfather could vote could vote then -
Missouri v. Canada
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Brown v Board (1)
Black children were denied admission to public schools attended by white children under laws requiring or permitting segregation according to the races. Does the segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race deprive the minority children of the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the 14th Amendment? Yes. Despite the equalization of the schools by "objective" factors, intangible issues foster and maintain inequality. Racial segregation in public education has a detr -
Brown v. Board (2)
After its decision in Brown I which declared racial discrimination in public education unconstitutional, the Court convened to issue the directives which would help to implement its newly announced Constitutional principle. What means should be used to implement the principles announced in Brown I? They were to implement the principles which the Supreme Court embraced in its first Brown decision. -
Equal Pay Acts of 1963
The right of employees to be free from discrimination in their compensation is protected under several federal laws -
Poll Taxes & Literacy Tests Outlawed : 24th Amendment
It outlawed literacy tests and poll taxes as a way of assessing whether anyone was fit or unfit to vote. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
It outlawed literacy tests and poll taxes as a way of assessing whether anyone was fit or unfit to vote. -
Civil Rights Act, Title 8
protects individuals against employment discrimination on the bases of race and color, as well as national origin and sex. -
Civil Rights Act of 1991
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 to modify some of the basic procedural and substantive rights provided by federal law in employment discrimination cases
