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Dredd Scott v. Stanford
A case in which the Supreme Court decided that descendants of African Slaves born in America were not American citizens, making it easier for the south to create morally irky slave codes and regulations -
13th amendment passed
A newly added amendment that ended slavery in all forms except as punishment for a committed crime. -
14th amendment passed
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States (especially referring to recently freed slaves) -
15th amendment passed
Granted African American men the right to vote, ensuring their new status as US citizens -
Plessy v. Ferguson
A landmark court case that ruled that discriminatory laws on the basis of race were not unconstitutional as long as the facilities were “separate by equal”. The majority of facilities were separate but not equal. -
White primaries
Elections held in the south that only whites could participate in, established around the year 1900 in several states. -
19th amendment passed
A very important amendment that guaranteed women the right to vote. -
Brown v. Board of Education
A landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, under the 14th amendment even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality. -
24th amendment passed
The right to vote can’t be denied to those who can’t pay a poll tax. -
Poll Taxes
A discriminatory pre requisite to voting, made knowing that many African Americans were poor and couldn’t afford it, ended with the passage of the 24th amendment -
Civil Rights act of 1964
An act that banned discrimination, amongst other things, on the basis of sex and race -
Voting rights act of 1965
A countermeasure to many discriminatory voting requirements on the south, such as a literary test. -
Affirmative Action
Affirmative action is defined as a set of procedures designed to eliminate unlawful discrimination among applicants, remedy the results of such prior discrimination, and prevent such discrimination in the future. Signed into law by Lyndon B Johnson in 1965. -
Reed v. Reed
A landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States holding that the administrators of estates cannot be named in a way that discriminates between sexes. -
Equal rights amendment passed
This amendment further ensured legal and social gender equality between women and men. -
Regents of the university of California v. Bakke
In Regents of University of California v. Bakke (1978), the Supreme Court ruled that a university's use of racial "quotas" in its admissions process was unconstitutional, but a school's use of "affirmative action" to accept more minority applicants was constitutional in some circumstances. -
Bowers v Hardwick
The Supreme Court ruled that it was unconstitutional for gay adults to engage in consensual acts of love. Essentially, they cucked all gay people. -
Americans with disabilities act passed
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in several areas, including employment, transportation, public accommodations, communications and access to state and local government' programs and services. -
Motor voter act
Certain requirements were put in place in order to vote in federal elections, opportunities to gain these requirements were put in place I’m states’ vehicle agencies -
Lawrence v. Texas
Overturned the decision in Bowers v. Hardwick. A law in Texas prohibiting any acts of same-sex sex was found to be unconstitutional under the due process clause. -
Obergefell v. Hodges
A civil rights case in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the fundamental right to marry is guaranteed to same-sex couples by both the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.