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This case decided that the US Constitution did not extend American citizenship to African Americans meaning that they did not receive the rights that others were allowed from the Constitution. -
This amendment states "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for a crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." This was the abolishment of slavery and involuntary servitude. -
This amendment stated that anyone born in the United States was deemed a United States citizen, no matter your race. -
This amendment granted African American men the right to vote. -
This ruled that racial segregation laws did not violate US Constitution as long as the facilities assigned to each race were of equal quality. The case essentially formed the idea of "separate but equal." -
This amendment established the right of United States citizens to vote regardless of sex. -
This case decision ruled that US state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional. -
This amendment prevents the federal and state governments from taxing voters during federal elections. -
This law prevents discrimination on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, or national origin. -
This outlawed ways of preventing African Americans from voting such as literacy tests. This was mainly for the southern states. -
This constitutional amendment essentially guaranteed legal gender equality between males and females. This included matters such as divorce, property, employment, and other matters. -
This law prohibits any sex-based discrimination in schools that receive any type of federal funding from the government. -
This case upheld affirmative action, allowing race to be one of several factors in college admission policy. -
This case supported the constitutionality of criminalizing oral and anal sexual acts in private between consenting adults.
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This law prohibits the discrimination based on disability. -
This case outlawed Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act which contains the coverage formula that determines which jurisdictions are subject to pre clearance based on their histories of racial discrimination while voting. -
This case made it so that states must license and recognize same-sex marriages. -
These series of laws make it more difficult for specific demographics of people to vote due to lack of items such as forms of identification. -
These laws ensure that contractors of federal agencies to not take into account race, gender, etc. when selecting or hiring new members.