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13th Amendment
The 13th Amendmant is passed. Neither slavery nor involantry servitued, excpet as a punishment for crime. -
14th Amendment
The 14th AMendment is passed
This amendmant was part of the reconstruction amendments and addressed equal protection under the law of citizenship. -
15th Amendment
The 15th AMendment is passed
Right of citizenship of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the united states or by any state on account of race. -
Literacy Tests
Literacy tests start
People have to test there literacy in order to be able to vote. -
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Laws requiring racial segrigation in public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal." -
19th Amendment
19th AMendmant is passed
The 19th amendmant made alot of women happy when it was passesed becouse ot gave women the right to vote. -
Korematsu vs. United States
Franklin Roosevelt issues Executive Order 9066 which stated that all American citizens of Japanese ancestery were to be moved in held in certain areas and possibly even in internment camps. Korematsu refused to move from his home in San Leandro, and took hiscase to the Supreme Court, where they sided with the Executive order 6-3. -
Sweatt vs. Painter
A U.S. Supreme Court case that successfully challenged the "seperate but equal" doctrine of racial segragation established by the 1896 case Plessy vs. Ferguson. -
Brown vs. Board of Education
Was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the court declared state laws establishing seprate public schools for black and white students to be unconstituonal. -
Montogomary Bus Boycott
The boycott is started.
This was a political and a socila protest campaign against the policy of racial segrigation. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The boycott is ended
African american refused to ride city busses in montgomory. Alabama to protest e=segrigated seating. -
Literacy tests
Literacy tests end -
Jim Crow Law
Jim crow laws are passed. This was the practice of discriminating against blacks in the south. Mandated the segrigation of public schools. -
Affirmitive Action
Affirmative Action is known as the policy of favoring members of a disadvantaged group who are likely to suffer from discriminaion. This action varies from region to region, but usually include items such as education and employment by granting special consideration to minorities and women; two groups by which have been discriminated against in history. This action is aimed to help obtain more equality in these such areas. -
24th Amendment
The 24th Amendment is passed
Pohibits requiring a poll tax for voters in federal elections. -
Civil rights act of 1964
Civil rights are put into order
An act to enforce constitiutonal right to vote, to confer juresdiction upon the district courts of the united states of america to provide injustive relief. -
Voting rights act of 1965
Voting rights are passed
An act to enforce the fifteen amendment to the constitution. It prohibited racial descrimination in voting. -
Robert Kennedy speech in Indianapolis upon death of MLK
Robert Kennedy speaks in Indianapolis about the death of MLK
This was the first public announcment of MLKs death. Kennedy was expecting riots but was able to speek and calm the crowd -
Reed vs Reed
Was an Equal Protection case in the United States in which the Supreme Court ruled that the administration of estates cannot be named in a way that disrimination between sexes. -
Equal Rights AMendmant
The ERA in the states. The Equal rights amendmant was passed by congress on march 22 1972 and was sent to the houses for ratification by both houes of their state legislatures. -
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
Was a landmark decision by the supreme court of the United States. It upheld affrimative action, allowing race to be one of several factors in college admission policy. -
Bowers vs. Hardwick
A United States Supreme Court decision, overturend in 2003, that upheld, in 5-4 ruling, the constitutionality of a Georgia sodomy law criminilizing oral and anal sex in private between consenting adults when applied to homosexuls. -
Americans with disabilities act
An act to establish a cler and comprehensive prohibition of discrimination on the basis of disability. -
Lawrence vs. Texas
Is a landmark decision by the United States supreme court. In the 6-3 ruling the court struck down the sodomy law in texas and, by extension, invalidated sodomy laws in 13 other states, making same-sex seaxul activity legal in every U.S. states and territory. -
Fisher vs. Texas
Abigail Fisher, a white female, applied to theUniversity of Texas and was denied. She sued against the school saying that their consideration of admission based on race was a violation of the Fourteenth Ammendment equal protection cause. The court decided in favor of the University, saying that the use of race consideration tailored means of obtaining greater diversity. -
Indiana Gay rights
Same sex marriage became legal in Indiana in 2014 after a constant battle for an ammendment to be made that constituted marriage to be between a man and a woman has continued to fail since 2004. This ammendment passed both houses in the legislature in 2005 and in 2011. As of 2014, District Court Judge Young declared Indiana's DOMA to be unconstitutional, and same-sex marriages officially became legal.
