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Dred Scott was a slave in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom otherwise known as the Dred Scott Decision. Since he had lived with his slave owner bu had been on land in free states, he was still legallly a slave.
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The 13th amendment was an amendment put in place immediately after the Civil War during the Reconstruction period. This amendment granted formal emancipation to the slaves.
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The 14th amendment was another reconstruction amendment that granted citizenship to enslaved blacks.
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Like the 13th and the 14th, the 15th amendment was also a reconstruction amendment. It granted newly freed black males the right to vote.
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Starting in 1889 and ending in 1910, poll taxes limited blacks and poor people are voting in elections.
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These were elections wehre only whites were allowed to vote, limiting blacks rights,.
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Plessy v. Ferguson was the landmark case that started segregation of blacks and whites in school and public places.
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Granted women the right to vote.
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First introduced in 1923, it was designed to guarantee equal rights for women. It failed ratification in 1977.
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This landmark case ended segregation in school and in all public facilities forever.
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First used by JFK. Affirmative action or positive discrimination (known as employment equity in Canada, reservation in India and Nepal, and positive action in the UK) is the policy of favoring members of a disadvantaged group who are perceived to suffer from discrimination within a culture.
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This is a landmark act of ended disrimination bases on race, sex, color, religion, or national origin.
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The Twenty-fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits requiring a poll tax for voters in federal elections.
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The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting.
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Reed v. Reed was an Equal Protection case in the United States in which the Supreme Court ruled that the administrators of estates cannot be named in a way that discriminates between sexes.
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Bowers v Hardwick banned adult homosexuals from having sex. This was overturned in 2003.
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This bill permited all public facilities to change their buildings for better access to disabled and handicapped people. It was supposed to make life easier for all people.
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This landmark case overturned Bowers v. Hardwick and completely abolished all laws criminalizing homesexuals having sex.
