GOV

By jackhayes23

  • Reconstruction amendments

    13 14 and 15 amendments

  • Scott v. Sanford (1857)

    This was a case about a slave who sued for his freedom, the court decided that black people are property

  • Reconstruction

    This was when the government tried to put the country back together

  • Jim Crow era

    This was when laws in the south were used to prevent blacks from flourishing in the south.

  • 19th Amendment

    This gives the rights to vote to men and woman

  • Plessy vs Ferguson

    This court case decided if separate but equal was constitutional and the decided it was not

  • Scottsboro Boys (1931-1937)

    This was a huge case in the south about 9 black kids accused of rape. The kids were innocent but proven guilty multiple times until they were exhumed on their record and proven innocent

  • George Stinney case (1944)

    This was a case about a 14-year-old black child convicted of murdering to white girls. He had a horrible trial and was convicted and given the electric chair.

  • Brown v. Board (1954)

    This court case determined separate but equal in schools was unconstitutional.

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    This court case determined that discrimination on race, color, sex, or religion

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    This stopped racial discrimination in voting

  • Civil Rights Act of 1968

    the Civil Rights Act of 1968 stopped housing discrimination: Refusal to sell or rent a home to any person because of his/her race, color, religion

  • California v. Bakke (1978) & Gratz v. Bollinger (2003)

    This stopped the different people getting better schooling or getting into a school because of race alone

  • Meredith v. Jefferson Co Board (2007) (Louisville school integration)

    The main issue was the desegregation and integration in Seattle, Washington, and Louisville, Kentucky