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The 13th Amendment
Passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865, the 13th amendment abolished slavery in the United States and provides that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.". -
The 14th amendment
The amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws, and was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves following the American Civil War. The amendment was bitterly contested, particularly by Southern states, which were forced to ratify it in order for them to regain representation in Congress. -
The 15th amendment
The fifteenth amendment granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." -
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Jim Crow Laws
The jim Crow laws were stared in 1876 and they finally ended in 1965. these laws mandated de jure racial segregation in all public facilities in Southern states of the former Confederacy, with, starting in 1890, a "separate but equal" status for African Americans. -
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Literacy tests
This was another way around thre Jim Crow laws, most black people even though they were alouwed to vote, were illiterate. So a Literacy test was imposed to stop them from voting. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
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" -
Poll taxes
poll taxes where a way aroub the Jim crow laws because most black people didnt have jobs, they made a tzx to stop them from voting. -
the 19th amendment
The Nineteenth prohibits any United States citizen from being denied the right to vote on the basis of sex. -
Sweatt v. Painter
a U.S. Supreme Court case that successfully challenged the "separate but equal" doctrine of racial segregation established by the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson. The case was influential in the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education four years later -
Brown v. the board of education
The court case which ruled that having two separate schools for blacks and whites was unconstitutiona. -
Ruby bridges
Ruby Bridges (born September 8, 1954) is an American activist known for being the first black child to attend an all-white elementary school in the South.[1] She attended William Frantz Elementary School. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
a seminal event in the U.S. civil rights movement, was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, -
affirmative action
Affirmative action is intended to promote the opportunities of minority groups within a society to give them equal access to that of the privileged majority population jobs. -
The 24th amendment
The Twenty-fourth Amendment (Amendment XXIV) of the United States Constitution 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 of 1964
a landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States[5] that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin -
Voting rights act of 1965
This act prevent racial segregation in voting. -
loving v. Virginia
A white man married a black woman and was sentenced to a year of prison. The Supreme Court ruled this unconstitutional. Ending all bans on interracial marriage. -
Robert Kennedy Speech in Indianapolis upon the death of MLK
Kennedy, the United States senator from New York, was campaigning to earn the 1968 Democratic presidential nomination when he learned that King had been assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. Earlier that day Kennedy had spoken at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend and at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana -
Reed v. Reed
Reed v. Reed is an Equal Protection case in the United States in which the Supreme Court ruled that the administrators of estates cannot be named in a way that discriminates between sexes. -
regents of the university of california v. bakke
regents of the university of california v. bakke was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States. It upheld affirmative action, allowing race to be one of several factors in college admission policy. However, the court ruled that specific quotas, such as the 16 out of 100 seats set aside for minority students by the University of California, Davis School of Medicine, were impermissible. -
Korematsu v. virginia
Court Case about if Japanese Internment during World War 2 was legal or illegal. The court sided with the government in a 6 to 3 decision. -
bowers v. hardwick
A supreme court case that upheald a 5-4 ruling the constitutionality of a Georgia sodomy law criminalizing oral and anal sex in private between consenting adults when applied to homosexuals -
Americans with disabilities act
This act allows peopke with physical and mental disabilities an equal opportunity in the work place and in everyday life. Whether it be to make door bigger for wheel chairs, or not denying a job to people with mental disabilities. -
lawrence v. Texas
In the 6–3 ruling, the Court struck down the sodomy law in Texas, making same sex, anal, oral, and bestiality sexual activities -
Fisher v. University of Texas
The Supreme Court voided the lower appellate court's ruling in favor of the University and remanded the case, holding that the lower court had not applied the standard of strict scrutiny. -
Indianas gay rights court battle
Gay couples were able to obtain marriage licenses in June 2014 for a two day period. Then after that the state ruled it illegal. Then not recognizing those marriages. -
equal rights amendment
The Equal Rights Amendment was a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution designed to guarantee equal rights for women
