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Seneca Falls Convention
Was a convention in New York being the first womens rights convention which discussed the social, civil, and religious conditions. -
13th Amendment
This Amendment abolished slavery, as well as involintary solitude unless a crime has been comitted. -
14th Amendment
This Amendment was directed towards equal protection under law in order to ensure equalty among the state and people. -
15th Admendment
This Admendment proibits the government from restricting a citizen the right to vote based off of race, color, or previous servitude. -
Colorado becomes first state to grant women the right to vote
Granted women the right to vote under equality improvments. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
Ruled that racial segregation was unconstitutional due to the "seperate but equal" doctrine. Created equalty mostly among whites and blacks. -
NAACP is founded
Was a African American civil rights organization created to ensure political, social, educational, and economic equality to eliminate racial discrimination and hatred -
19th Admendment
This Admendment prohibits the government from restricting a citizen the right to vote based on sex. -
Executive Order 10450
Revoked President Trumans Executive Order 9835 and redefined the perimeters of investigating a federal agent that posed security risks. -
Brown v. Board of Education
Ruled that segregation within schools is unconstitutional and required imediate desegregation allowing for white and blacks to attend the same schools. -
One Inc v. Olesen
Was the first Supreme Court ruling to deal with homosexuality and free speech respect towards homosexuals. -
Illinois becomes first state to repeal its sodomy laws
Was the first state to repeal heterosexual persecution seen mostly in gay men, allowed them to live more freely. -
24th Amendment
This Amendment prohibits congress and state from requiring a poll tax during a federal election. -
Civil Rights Act 1964
Outlawed any discrimination on a citizen based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
Voting Rights Act 1965
Prohibited racial discrimination in voting and was enacted during the height of the Civil Rights Race movement. -
Stonewall Inn Riots
Violent demostrators from the gay commity lashed out during a police raid in Manhattan, New York. Was first major gay liberation outburst. -
Title IX
Prohibited the discrimination of sex in any athletic or educational atmosphere, if one was subject to unequal representation between men and women than they would be subject to loss of funding. -
APA removes homosexuality as a mental disorder
The Board of Trustees determined that homosexuality was not a mental illness. -
Dont Ask Dont Tell
Was issued in the marines and army stating that as long as one did not commit a gay act or announced that one was gay than they were allowed to be a part of the corps. Also they stopped asking ones sexual preference while recruiting. -
Defense of Marriage Act
Allows states to refuse same sex marriage otherwise allowed legally in other states. -
Massachusetts legalizes gay marriages
Allows for same sex couples to marry which gives them more rights. -
Dont ask Dont tell is repealed
Prohibited any personel from discrimating about any gay person in the corps giving them a relaxation in persecution mostly to gay men.
