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Declaration of Independence
it was a document that freed the colonies from the British. Congress approved the final text of the Declaration. It wasn't signed until August 2, 1776. -
Seneca Falls Convention
At the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, N.Y., a woman’s rights convention–the first ever held in the United States–convenes with almost 200 women in attendance. -
13th Amendment
Constitution declared 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." -
14th Amendment
one of the Reconstruction Amendments. 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. -
15th Amendment
Constitution 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." -
Colorado becomes first state to let women vote
The legal right of women to vote in that country, was established over the course of several decades, first in various states and localities. -
Plessy VS Fergusan
The state of Louisiana enacted a law that required separate railway cars for blacks and whites. In 1892, Homer Adolph Plessy--who was seven-eighths Caucasian--took a seat in a "whites only" car of a Louisiana train. He refused to move to the car reserved for blacks and was arrested. -
NAACP is Founded
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States, -
19th Amendment
Amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote. -
Brown VS Board of Education
Black children were denied admission to public schools attended by white children under laws requiring or permitting segregation according to the races. -
Executive Order 10450
Security Requirements for Government Employment, April 27, 1953 Requires that all persons employed in Government departments and agencies be reliable, trustworthy, of good conduct and character, and of complete and unswerving loyalty to the United States -
One, Inc V. Olesen
Landmark United States Supreme Court decision for LGBT rights in the United States. It was the first U.S. Supreme Court ruling to deal with homosexuality and the first to address free speech rights with respect to homosexuality. -
Illinios repeals its sodomy laws
On this date in history, the state of Illinois led the nation in becoming the first state in the land to enact a repeal of it’s law criminalizing homosexuality. -
24th Amendment
Outlawing the poll tax as a voting requirement in federal elections, by a vote of 295 to 86 -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Prohibited discrimination in public places, provided for the integration of schools and other public facilities, and made employment discrimination illegal. This document was the most sweeping civil rights legislation since Reconstruction. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting. -
Stonewall Inn Riots
A group of gay customers at a popular gay bar in Greenwich Village called the Stonewall Inn, who had grown angry at the harassment by police, took a stand and a riot broke out. -
Title IX
Title IX is a comprehensive federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in any federally funded education program or activity. -
APA removes hmosexuality as a mental disorder
The American Psychological Association supports the action taken on December
15, 1973, by the American Psychiatric Association, removing homosexuality from
that Association's official list of mental disorders. -
Defense of Marriage Act
United States Supreme Court ruled in Windsor v. United States that Section 3 of the so-called Defense of Marriage Act, the 1996 law that denies legally married same-sex couples over 1,100 protections and responsibilities of marriage, is unconstitutional. -
Massachusuttes legalizes gay marriage
Result of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health that it was unconstitutional under the Massachusetts constitution to allow only opposite-sex couples to marry. -
Dont Ask Dont Tell is Repealed
Specifying that the policy would remain in place until the President, the Secretary of Defense, and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff certified that repeal would not harm military readiness, followed by a 60-day waiting period. -
Dont Ask Dont Tell
The law prohibiting gay and lesbian people from serving openly in the military—is officially in the dustbin of history
