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13th Amendment
Officially abolished slavery and was ratified Dec. 6, 1865 -
14th Amendmemt
Guaranteed African Americans citizenship and all privleges in the U.S. Constitution. It was ratified July 9, 1868 -
15th Amendment
The 15th ammendment granted African American men the right to vote.it was ratified March 30, 1870. -
Plessy V. Ferguson
A man by thr name of Homer Plessy sat in an all white railroad car, after refusing to sit in the black carriage car he was then arrested. This action took place within the state of Louisiana. Plessy was found guilty in court. After this the ruled that all races should be "seperate yet equal". -
Mendez V. Westminster
This case challenged racial segregation in Orange County, California schools. The ruling was that segregation of schools because they were Mexican and Mexican Americans was ruled as unconstitutional. -
Delgado vs. Bastrop ISD
This court case prohibited the segregation of Mexican-Americans in Texas illegal. Minerva Delgado and 20 other parents filed against the school district, and argued hat the school districts had “prohibited, barred, and excluded” Mexican American children in violation of the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the U.S. 14th amendment. In 1947, the judge stated that the segregation of Mexican-Americans was unconstitutional. -
Executive Order 9981
President Truman passed the Prder to end segregation in the armed forces he wanted everyone to have equal oppurtunity and treatment no matter their color, race, religion, or national orgin -
Sweatt vs Painter
Heman Marion Sweatt, a black man, applied to the University of Texas Law School. State law restricted access to the university to whites, and Sweatt was automatically rejected because of his race. When Sweatt asked the state courts to order his admission, the university attempted to provide separate but equal facilities for black law students. The Court held that the Equal Protection Clause required that Sweatt be admitted to the university. -
Hernandez vs. Texas
Pete Hernandez, Mexican, was convicted of murder. No Mexican American had been in his jury, they said that the jury could not be impartial unless members of non-Caucasian races were allowed Hernandez and his lawyers appealed to the Texas Supreme court, and appealed again to the United States Supreme Court. They ruled in favor of Hernandez, and he was retried with a jury composed without regard to ethnicity. The 14th Amendment protects those beyond the racial classes of white or black -
Brown v. Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education was set in order to overturn the Plessy V. ferguson case.It was set alo to acknowledge that racial segregation abolished the Equal protection clause of the 14th Ammendment. Claimed that segregation was "inherritly unequal". This case occured in Topeka Kansas. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
It was the first civil rights legislation passed by Congress in the United States since the 1866 and 1875 Acts. Although it didn't do much because it wasn't enforced. -
24th Ammendment
The 24th Ammendment was ratified into the constitution in order to abolish the poll taxes as well as the civil rights act. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
This act prohibits discrimination based on race, color, religion, or national orgin. Federal gov. has power to enforce desegragation. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Eliminates literacy tests, poll taxes, and grandfather clauses that restrict African Americans from voting -
Edgewood vs. Kirby
The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund filed against William Kirby on behalf of the Edgewood ISD, saying there was discrimination against students in poor school districts. The plaintiffs said that the state's methods of funding public schools violated at least 4 principles of the state constitution, which says the state to provide an efficient& free public school system. The court ruling sided with the Edgewood& orderd the state to put in an equitible system.
