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Supreme Court ruled that African Americans were not citizens of the United States and therefore could not invoke lawsuits.
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Abolished Slavery in the United States.
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Granted citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the United States"
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A practice most common in the Southern States that made people pay a tax in order to cast their vote in elections. This tax was mainly used to keep poor African Americans from voting.
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Supreme Court Case that upheld the Constitutionality of segregation for public facilities as long as the facilities were equal in quality. It maintained the "Separate but equal" ideology
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Primary elections in Southern states in which only white people were permitted to vote.
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Prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex.
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A Supreme Court case that overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and admitting that separate does not lead to equality and ended segregation in public schools.
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An Executive Order that required government employers to not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, creed, color, or national origin
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Prohibited the creations of poll taxes for federal elections.
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Outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. As well as unequal application of voter registration requirements, racial segregation in schools, employment, and public accommodations
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Outlawed discriminatory voting practices such as literacy tests
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Granted African Americans the right to vote.
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A landmark case in which the Supreme Court struck down a law that discriminated against a woman.
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A proposed Amendment that prohibited the denial of Civil Liberties based on sex
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The courts held that the University's use of racial "quotas" was unconstitutional, however, it might be constitutional in some circumstances
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Supreme Court case that ruled that Sodomy has no protection from the constitution therefore any laws that the states have about Sodomy are constitutional.
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Prohibits the discrimination of people in based on a disability
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A Supreme Court Case that overturned the Bowers v. Hardwick case stating that prohibiting same sex intercourse violates the Due Process Clause.
