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The U.S. Supreme Court stated that enslaved people were not citizens of the United States and, therefore, could not expect any protection from the federal government or the courts.
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Abolished slavery
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Granted citizenship to anyone born or naturalized in the US
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granted African American men to vote
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A fight in the supreme court the questioned the separate but equal that upheld state-imposed Jim crow laws
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Woman's suffrage rights
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delivered the unanimous ruling in the landmark civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. State-sanctioned segregation of public schools was a violation of the 14th amendment and was therefore unconstitutional.
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prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin
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banned the use of literacy tests, provided for federal oversight of voter registration in areas where less than 50 percent of the non-white population had registered to vote, and authorized the U.S. attorney general to investigate the use of poll taxes in state and local elections.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson issued Executive Order 11246, prohibiting employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, and national origin by those organizations receiving federal contracts and subcontracts.
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marked the first time in history that the Court applied the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to strike down a law that discriminated against women.
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a university's admissions criteria which used race as a definite and exclusive basis for an admission decision violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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the Court considered whether a person had a Constitutional right to engage in homosexual sex. In this case, Georgia passed a statute criminalizing both oral and anal sex.
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increases access and opportunity for people with disabilities across community life, including employment.
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sets forth certain voter registration requirements with respect to elections for federal office.
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a Texas statute criminalizing intimate, consensual sexual conduct was a violation of the Due Process Clause.
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a lawsuit challenging the state's refusal to recognize same-sex marriage on death certificates