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During this supreme court case, it was decided that US Constitution was not meant to include American citizenship for black people, regardless of whether they were enslaved or free, and so the rights and privileges that the Constitution confers upon American citizens could not apply to them. -
The 13th amendment states Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. This of course is what slavery illegal in the United states -
This amendment is what guaranteed that any male who was above the age of 21 and has not committed a crime has the right to vote. -
This prevented all states from not allowing someone of color to vote. -
Upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality, a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal". This meant that they thought it was ok for there to be bathrooms for different races and etc. -
allowed for women to be able to vote. The women's suffrage movement had been going on for years. It all paid off when they passed this amendment. -
This supreme court case decided that segregation in school was unconstitutional. Even if the schools are the same and equal. For many years whites and blacks went to different schools but after this, it allowed for them to go to the same schools together. -
The United States outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, and later sexual orientation and gender identity. -
It outlawed the voting practices that southern states adopted in order to keep blacks from voting such as literacy tests. -
This was a landmark supreme court case that administrators of estates cannot be named in a way that discriminates between sexes. This means that the man isn't always awarded it instead decided in a fairway. -
This prevented any sex-based discrimination in schools with federal funding. This also applies nowadays to people who are a part of the LGBTQ community. -
A landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States. It upheld affirmative action, allowing race to be one of several factors in college admission policy. However, the court ruled that specific racial quotas, such as the 16 out of 100 seats set aside for minority students by the University of California, Davis School of Medicine, were impermissible.
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This prevents discrimination for those with disabilities. Including employment, transportation, public accommodations, etc. This allows them to have the same opportunities as everybody else. -
This supreme court case ended in the decision that same-sex marriage will be legal in every state. Before this, there were many states where it was illegal so to get married they would have to go to a state where it was legal.
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