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Passed by the Senate on June 8, 1866, and ratified two years later, on July 9, 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment granted citizenship to all persons
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Passed by Congress February 26, 1869, and ratified February 3, 1870, the 15th amendment granted African American men the right to vote.
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. In 1878 the first federal women's suffrage amendment was introduced but was soundly defeated later in the first full Senate vote in 1887.
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Citation: Plessy vs. Ferguson, Judgement, Decided May 18, 1896; Records of the Supreme Court of the United States
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey and Ida B. Wells.
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the 19th amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote.
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Shelley v. Kraemer, 334 U.S. 1, is a landmark United States Supreme Court case that struck down racially restrictive housing covenants
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483, was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that U.S.
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Parks was arrested on December 1, 1955, after she refused to give up her seat on a crowded bus to a white passenger.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
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The National Organization for Women is an American feminist organization. Founded in 1966, it is legally a 501 social welfare organization.
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Green v. County School Board of New Kent County, 391 U.S. 430, was an important United States Supreme Court case involving school desegregation.
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Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, 402 U.S. 1, was a landmark United States Supreme Court case dealing with the busing of students to promote integration in public schools.
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Proposition 209 is a California ballot proposition which, upon approval in November 1996, amended the state constitution to prohibit state governmental institutions from considering race, sex, or ethnicity, specifically in the areas of public employment, public contracting, and public education.