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Rights of citizenship, due process of law, and equal protection of the law. The 14th amendment has become one of the most used amendments in court to date regarding the equal protection clause.
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The government cannot discriminate against "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
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Segregations laws. Homer plessy refused to sit in the back of the train. Caused the "seprate but equal"
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The national advancement of colored people. Is a civil rights organization
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Denying the right to vote based on gender.
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Alice Paul first introduced the ERA to Congress in 1923. Paul would work for the passage for a long time.
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Denied discrimination based on race in the military. It led to the desegregation of the military.
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Laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional.
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A protest against racial segregation in montgomery.
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9 african americans tried to go to school students were preventing them from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas.
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First federal civil rights legislation passed by the United States Congress since the Civil Rights Act of 1875.
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Civil rights activists who rode busses in to southern segregated U.S.
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The letter Dr king sends from prison defending the strategy of nonviolent protest.
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Advocated for the civil and economic rights of African Americans. Also the famous speech from Martin Luther King jr.
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Prohibits poll tax.
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Outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
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Prohibits racial discrimination in voting.
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Freedom for african americans.
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April 4, 1968, Memphis, TN. He said in several speeches he will never see a day past 39 and he died while he was 39.
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She was the first Hispanic and Latino Justice.
