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Dred Scott, a man who lived in the free state of Illinois after many years as a slave in Missouri, went back to Missouri to file for his freedom and after the court in missouri denied his request Dred Scott took to federal court where in the following case it was deemed that people of color were not in fact citizens as specified by the constitution. -
This amendment abolished slavery except in cases of punishment in which the person has been convicted. Signed by Abraham Lincoln
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The amendment states that anyone born on U.S soil is a citizen of the United States of America. The amendment also protected itself against change to the amendment.
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The 15th amendment gave the right to all people (men) the right to vote and that it shall not be infringed by the matter of race, or color, Proposed by Ulysses S. Grant.
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In Louisiana a separate car act set in place made it that railways would have separate rail carts for black and white people. And to test the railway Plessy a man 7/8 white but considered
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This amendment signed that the right to vote shall not be discriminated against on account of gender.
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During the 1950's in great times of segregation the compilation of cases from Kansas, South Carolina, Virgina, Delaware, and Washington D.C. came to the supreme court that argued segregated classes rooms violated the 14th amendment. The Court found that the circumstances were unfair and unconstitutional
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After several years of discrimination, President Lyndon B Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act in collaboration with leaders such as Hubert Humphrey and MLK jr. the act prohibits discrimination against another for race, religion, sex.
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Signed by President Lyndon B Johnson, the act had banned the practices of making it harder for black people to vote that had been adopted in the south after the civil war
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After the death of their son,both Sally and Cecil Reed sought to be the administrator of his estates, but under Idaho Probate Code, men were to be preferred to women. Sally saw this unfair and took it to court, which the supreme court voted unanimously that the probate code was unconstitutional.
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This was a Act signed into law by President Nixon, The act prohibits the discrimination based on gender in public schools or any education system that is funded by federal money
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Allan Bakke, a white man, had tried to apply to the University of California's medical school. He had been denied as there were other places in the class that were reserved for qualified minorities, Bakke had higher gpa and total scores that the minorities that were being accepted into the class and so he took it to court deeming that he was being excluded on the basis of race. The court ultimately decided that it violated the 14th amendment
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Signed into law by George H.W Bush the law prohibits the discrimination of another person on the basis of their disability
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A collaboration of Same-sex couples sued in their states the constitutionality of the states that had banned the practice of same sex marriage. The supreme court found that it was unconstitutional and that the right of a same-sex couple to be legally married should be protected
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