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Declaration of Independance
Statement by the continental Congress. Stes that the thirteen American colonies were regarded as independant states. -
Seneca Falls Convention
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott spearheaded the first women's rights convention in American history. Demanded that women be granted all of the rights and privileges that men possessed, including the right to vote. -
13th Amendment
This amendment finally abolished slavery in the United Sates. -
14th Amendment
This amendment expanded protection of civil rights to all of America. -
15th Amendment
This amendment granted African Americans the right to vote, but there were many steps they had to take before voting. -
Colorado becomes first state to grant Women voting rights
They had to convince a majority of men in the state, not just legislators that hey should be able to share the same power. Victory was made for the colorado women. -
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Homer Adolph Plessy 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. Case was to sent to Supreme Court and Plessy won 7-1. -
NAACP
A group of multi-racial activists held a conference in New York City and decided to form the National Negro Committee. -
19th Amendment
This amendement gave women the right to vote. -
Executive Order 10450
This order requires that everyone employed in Government departments and agencies must be reliable, trustworthy, of good conduct and character, and of complete and unswerving loyalty to the United States -
Brown v. Board of Education
Black people were not allowed to attend public schools that white people attended. Court case listed 8-0, Brown 8 and Board of education 0. -
One, Inc v. Olsen
A landmark that the United States Supreme Court decided for LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transexul) rights in the United States. -
Illinois is First State to Repeal its Sodomy Law
Illinois became the first state to repeal its anti-sodomy law. Sodomy meaning any type of sext act that isn't natural. -
24th Amendment
This amendment prohibits congress and states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections and taxes. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin -
Voting Rights Act 1965
Signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson and enforced the voting rights guaranteed by the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. -
Stonewall Inn riots
A series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the gay community against a police raid -
Title IX
No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in the benefits of receiving federal financial assistance -
APA removes homosexuality as a mental disorder
Homosexuality was no longer considered a mental disorder because a mental or psychiatric condition to be considered a psychiatric disorder must either regularly cause subjective distress, or regularly be associated with some generalized impairment in social effectiveness or functioning. -
Dont Ask Dont Tell
Prohibited people who demonstrate to engage in homosexual acts from serving in the armed forces of the United States, -
Defense of Marriage Act
This is a Uited States federal law that allows states to refuse to recognize same-sex marriages granted under the laws of other states -
Masachusetts legalizes gay marriage
In Massachusettes it is considered inconstituational to allow only opposite-sex couples marry. -
Don't Ask Don't Tell Repealed
A congressional bill to repeal DADT was enacted in December 2010, President Barack Obama, Secretary of Defense Leon Panet sent a certification to Congress on July 22, 2011, which set the end of DADT to September 20,
