Unit 4 Task 2

By camrynhughley

  • 14th Amendment

    Abolish slavery

  • 15th Amendment

    Gave citizenship to everyone of race

  • Plessy v Ferguson

    A Supreme Court decision where the Court ruled that segregation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution as long as the facilities for each race were equal in quality (separate but equal)

  • NAACP was founded

    It is america's oldest and largest civil rights organization. It established the political, educational, equality of minority group citizens of States.

  • 1st Women's Suffrage Amendment was introduced

    It's the 19th amendment that guaranteed women the right to vote.

  • 19th Amendment

    Granted women the right to vote

  • Shelley v Kramer

    A Supreme Court case which held that racially restrictive housing treaties cannot be enforced legally.

  • Brown v Board of Education

    A Supreme Court decision that got rid of the term “Separate but Equal” and stopped segregation in schools.

  • Rosa Parks refuses giving up her bus seat

    She helped launch the civil rights movement in the US when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.

  • Congress passes 1st Civil Rights Act

    The US State of Representative passed the act that discrimination was illegal against race or gender.

  • Civil Rights of 1964

    It outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin.

  • National Organization of Women (NOW) founded

    It was established by a group of feminists who were dedicated to actively challenging sex discrimination in politics, healthcare and overall society.

  • Green v County School Board of New Kent County

    The Supreme Court held that the “freedom of choice” plan was not an acceptable step to bring about a desegregated unitary school system.

  • Swann v Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education

    The Supreme Court upheld programs that aimed to speed up the racial integration of public schools in the US.

  • Proposition 209-California

    It prohibits state governmental organizations from discrimination against race, sex, or ethnicity, in areas of public employment, contracting, and education.