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Declaration of Independence
It is at once the nation's most cherished symbol of liberty and Jefferson's most enduring monument. -
Seneca Falls Convention
It was the first women's rights convention -
14th Amendment
It was the making African Americans full citizens of the United States and prohibiting states from denying them equal protection or due process of law, is ratified. Congress reports that 373 freed slaves have been killed by whites. -
15th Amendment
It enacted, guaranteeing the right to vote will not be denied or abridged on account of race. -
Plessy vs. Ferguson
It was a landmark United States Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal. -
NAACP is founded
To ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination." -
19th Amendment
It prohibits any United States citizen from being denied the right to vote on the basis of sex -
Colorado becomes first state to grant women the right to vote
the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified and women nationwide were finally granted the right to vote. To which the women of Colorado responded, welcome to the sisterhood. -
APA removes homosexuality as a mental disorder
Before then, psychiatrists and psychologists looked at homosexuality as a perversion and as a deviant behavior, but the idea that it was a mental illness was considerably more controversial -
Executive Order 10450
It is any criminal, infamous, dishonest, immoral, or notoriously disgraceful conduct, habitual use of intoxicants to excess, drug addiction, or sexual perversion -
Brown vs. Board of Education
In Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, the Supreme Court rules unanimously against school segregation, overturning its 1896 decision in Plessy v. Ferguson. -
One, Inc v. Olesen
Holding
Pro-homosexual writing is not per se obscene. -
Illinois becomes first state to repeal its sodomy laws
Illinois became the first state in the U.S. to get rid of its sodomy law. which outlawed a variety of sexual acts, were historically universal. While they often targeted sexual acts between persons of the same sex, many statutes employed definitions broad enough to outlaw certain sexual acts between persons of different sexes as well, sometimes even acts between married persons. -
24th Amendment
It prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax -
Civil Rights Act 1964
The most sweeping civil rights legislation since Reconstruction, It prohibited discrimination of all kinds based on race, color, religion or national origin and transform American society. The law allowed the federal government to enforce desegregation and prohibits discrimination in public facilities, in government and in employment. -
Voting Rights Act 1965
It prohibits racial discrimination in voting -
Stonewall Inn Riots
the event largely regarded as a catalyst for the LGBT movement for civil rights in the United States. The riots inspired LGBT people throughout the country to organize in support of gay rights, and within two years after the riots, gay rights groups had been started in nearly every major city in the United States. - See more at: http://www.civilrights.org/archives/2009/06/449-stonewall.html#sthash.YX4zaiwU.dpuf -
Title IX
It's a law that requires gender equity for boys and girls in every educational program that receives federal funding. -
Dont Ask Dont tell
the law prohibiting gay and lesbian people from serving openly in the military—is officially in the dustbin of history. -
Defense of Marriage Act
United States federal law that allows states to refuse to recognize same-sex marriages granted under the laws of other states -
Massachusetts legalizes gay marriage
As a result of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) ruling in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health that it was unconstitutional under the Massachusetts constitution to allow only opposite-sex couples to marry. Massachusetts became the sixth jurisdiction in the world (after the Netherlands, Belgium, Ontario, British Columbia, and Quebec) to legalize same-sex marriage. It was the first U.S. state to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. -
Dont ask Dont tell is repealed
a process for ending the Don't ask, don't tell (DADT) policy (10 U.S.C. § 654), thus allowing gays, lesbians, and bisexuals to serve openly in the United States Armed Forces. It ended the policy in place since 1993 that allowed them to serve only if they kept their sexual orientation secret and the military did not learn of their sexual orientation.
