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Dred Scott a slave in Missouri (slave state) moved with his master to Illinois (free state) and after they had returned to Missouri Dred Scoff Sued for his freedom stating that his time in Illinois had mad him a free man but the supreme court had ruled that black people free and enslaved are not citizens of the united states and can not file a lawsuit in a federal court -
the 13th amendment abolished slavery -
allowed citizenship to all people in the united states including former slaves. stating that no person she be deprived of their rights as a citizen and no state shall deny a person equal protection of the law -
all citizen have the right to vote no n]matter race, color, or previous condition of servitude -
in the state of Louisiana Plessy refused to sit in the train car for blacks and he arrested. Plessy testified that they were violating his 13th, 14th, and 15th amendment rights but the court stated that the amendments emphasized on equality meaning blacks and whites are required to have the same things but can be separated by laws of the state in tern being separate but equal -
the right for united states citizens to vote no matter what sex
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Kansas, South Carolina, Virginia, Delaware, and Washington D.C. relating to the segregation of public schools on the basis of race. In each of the cases, African American students had been denied admittance to certain public schools based on laws allowing public education to be segregated by race. the court ruled that these laws were unequal and violated the 14th amendment
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It prohibits in the United States discrimination of all types including; race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation and gender identity -
Eliminates testing imposed by many Sothern states as a obstacle to keep blacks from voting in elections after the 15th amendment was passed (Ex. Jim crow laws) -
The Idaho Probate Code specified that "males must be preferred to females" in appointing administrators of estates. After the death of their adopted son, both Sally and Cecil Reed sought to be named the administrator of their son's estate
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prohibits sex-based discrimination in any school or other education program that receives federal money allowing women to receive money in any sort of educational program -
race to be one of several factors in college admission policy. -
Equal rights and laws against discrimination against people with disabilities. -
landmark civil rights case in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the fundamental right to marry is guaranteed to same-sex couples by both the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
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