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13th Amendment
the 13th amendment is in affect to abolish slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.Congress passed this amendment on January 31 1865 -
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Feb 11 - 18, 1856
Dred Scott was a slave in the missosuri area. He than later resided in a free state of Illinois. After returning to the Missouri area, he filed for a suit regarding his freedom. -
14th Amendment
The 14th amendment granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States, including former enslaved people. This also granted all citizens "equal protection of the laws" -
15th Amendment
The Fifteenth Amendment would guarantee protection against racial discrimination in voting. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
A case in which the Court held that state-mandated segregation laws did not violate the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. -
Nineteenth Amendment
Prohibits the states from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex, in effect recognizing the right of women to a vote -
Brown v. Board of Education
Topeka was a landmark 1954 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
It is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. -
Reed v. Reed
A landmark decision of the US Supreme Court ruling that the administrators of estates cannot be named in a way that discriminates between sexes. -
Title IX
Prohibits sex-based discrimination in any school or other education program that receives federal money. -
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
It upheld affirmative action, allowing race to be one of several factors in college admission policy. -
Americans with Disabilities Act
The act prohibits discrimination against people with a disability in several areas, including employment, transportation, public accommodations, communications and access to state and local government' programs and services. -
Obergefell v. Hodges
Obergefell overturned Baker and requires all states to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples and to recognize same-sex marriages validly performed in other jurisdictions.