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13 Amendment
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude expect as a punishment for crime where of the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the united states, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. -
14 Amendment
All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the stae where in they reside. -
15 Amendment
the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state or account ofrace color or previous condition of servitude. -
Jim Crow
Separate school for white students and black even other public places had signs up. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
Supreme court upheld a Louisiana law requiring separate railway coaches for white and African American passengers. -
19 Amendment
the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged. -
Korematsu v. United states
During World War II, Presidential Executive Order 9066 and congressional statutes gave the military authority to exclude citizens of Japanese ancestry from areas deemed critical to national defense and potentially vulnerable to espionage. -
Sweatt v. Painter
court ruled that a segregated law school for African American students at the University of Texas could not provide students equal education. -
Brown v. Board of Education
the segregation of public schools necessarity made for unequal education. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white person on a public bus. -
Affirmative Action
used in the United States in Executive Order 10925 and was signed by President John F. Kennedy.It was used to promote actions that achieve non-discrimination. -
24 Amendment
the right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for president or vie president, for electors for president, vice, senator or house of reps in congress. No denied. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
guaranteed equal rights for women. -
Literacy Tests
refers to state government practices of administering tests to prospective voters purportedly to test their literacy in order to vote. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
helped African Americans secure equal opportunity at the ballot box. -
Robert Kennedy's Speech
Remarks on the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Reed v. Redd
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. -
Equal Rights Amendment
bar discrimination based on a person's sex. 30 states had ratified the ERA. -
Regents of Univ. of CA v. Bakke
Allan Bakke, a thirty-five-year-old white man, had twice applied for admission to the University of California Medical School at Davis. He was rejected both times. -
Bowers v. Hardwick
Michael Hardwick was observed by a Georgia police officer while engaging in the act of consensual homosexual sodomy with another adult in the bedroom of his home. -
Poll Taxes
In the United States, payment of a poll tax was a prerequisite to the registration for voting in a number of states. -
Americans with Disabilities Act
forbids employers and the owners of public accommodations to discriminate against people with disabilities. -
Lawrence v Texas
Responding to a reported weapons disturbance in a private residence, Houston police entered John Lawrence's apartment and saw him and another adult man, Tyron Garner, engaging in a private, consensual sexual act. -
Fisher v Texas
In 1997, the Texas legislature enacted a law requiring the University of Texas to admit all high school seniors who ranked in the top ten percent of their high school classes. -
Indiana's Gay Rights
the United States Supreme Court denied review of a federal legal case in which a federal judge and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit ruled that denying same –sex couples the freedom to marry in Indiana is unconstitutional.
