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Dred Scott was a slave from Missouri that was brought to Illinois where slavery was illegal. He sued saying that since he was brought into free territory he was automatically free. It went all the way to the supreme court, they reasoned that because he was property he could not have rights anyway. -
Concluded that slavery will no longer be legal. "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." -
With the advent of the 14th Amendment in 1868, people could now be naturalized into the USA as citizens if born here.
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"The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
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In Plessy V. Ferguson, Plessy was a part black man who entered a white only train car and was arrested. He pleaded not guilty but lost so he brought it to the Supreme Court. They declared that separate was okay under the constitution and Plessy was charged and that was that until Brown v Board of Education. -
States: "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex." and basically means women can now vote -
Oliver Brown wanted to enroll his daughter into a public school with white kids but the school board didn't want to allow it, it was then brought to the supreme court. They concluded that laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality. -
In the early 1960's throughout the nation there was unrest due to Martin Luther King Jr. and his following wanting the nation to end segregation of blacks and whites in general this led to the Civil Rights Act which meant that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, and later sexual orientation and gender identity. -
A piece of legislation from congress spurred on by the civil rights movement of the 1960's that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. -
A supreme court case that ruled the administrators of estates cannot be named in a way that discriminates between sexes. Before people could basically give preferences based on if they were male or not. -
A law enacted from congress that prohibits sex-based discrimination in any school or other education program that receives federal money. -
People were reserving 16 out a hundred spots specifically for minority students that whites or non-minorities couldn't fill. The Supreme court held that this violates the Constitution but racially profiling people to get into college was still okay. -
A law enacted by congress that prohibits discrimination based on disability. It was very similar in nature to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 -
The Supreme court 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. Same sex couples could now get married in all 50 states.
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