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Declaration of Independance
This document signaled the separation of The Thirteen Colonies from Great Britain. It was signed and finalized on July 4, 1776 and was lead by John Adams. Thomas Jefferson put together the first draft. -
Seneca Falls Convention
This was referred to as a “Woman’s Rights Convention”. It was held to discuss the social, civil, and religion condition and rights of woman. It was held in Seneca Falls, New York and led to many other women’s rights convention. -
13th Amendment
The thirteenth amendment abolished slavery. This was the most significant move in civil rights to date. The 13th amendment allowed former slaves to be dismissed from their former duties and gave them the right to make their own decisions. -
15th Amendment
The 15th amendment gave citizens of the United States the right to vote regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. -
14th Amendment
This amendment developed citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws. It was considered after issues began coming up with former slaves. The Southern states were mostly against it. -
Colorado becomes first state to grant women the right to vote
Colorado was the second state to give women suffrage and the first state where the men voted to give women the right to vote. -
Plessy vs. Ferguson
This case was taken on by the Supreme Court and regarded racial segregation in public facilities. The vote was 7 to 1 majority while one judge was dissent. “Separate but equal” remained standard law. -
19th Amendment
This amendment prohibits any citizen from being denied the right to vote based off of sex. It was the event that brought together the women’s suffrage movement and overruled Minor v. Happersett which said the 14th amendment did not give women the right to vote. -
Executive Order 10450
President Dwight D. Eisenhower issued Executive Order 10450 on April 27, 1953. Revoked President Truman's 1947 Executive Order 9835 and dismantled its Loyalty Review Board program. Instead it charged the heads of federal agencies and the Office of Personnel Management, supported by theFBI, with investigating federal employees to determine whether they posed security risks. It expanded the definitions and conditions used to make such determinations -
Brown vs. Board of Education
This required the phrase "seperate but equal" to be enforced with public facilities, including schools. This was significant because before, the school system was very unfair with funding and general conditions. -
One, Inc. vs Oleson
This was a Supreme court decision for LBGT rights in America. The magazine sued after a campaign of harassment was published. This marked the first time the Supreme Court had explicitly ruled on free press rights around homosexuality. -
24th Amendment
The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
It was a piece of legislation that prohibits discrimination in voting during the American Civil Rights Movement. It was designed to enforce the voting rights guaranteed by the 14th and 15th Amendments. It is considered to be one of the most effective pieces of civil rights legislation ever enacted in the United States. -
Stonewall Inn Riots
These were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the gay community against a police raid at the Stonewall Inn in New York City. After these riots, gays and lesbians in NYC faced many obstacles when trying to become a cohesive community. Gay Pride events are held annually throughout the world to mark these riots. -
Title 9
This is a portion of the Education Amendments of 1972 and was renamed the Patsy Mink in 2002. It states that no person shall be excluded from participation in education based on sex. -
APA removeds homosexuality as a mental disorder
Any therapies used to make people stop being homosexual. Being gay or lesbian was no longer considered a mental illness. -
Don't Ask Don't Tell
Don't ask, don't tell was the official United States policy on service by gays and lesbians in the military.The policy prohibited military personnel from discriminating against or harassing closeted homosexual or bisexual service members or applicants, while barring openly gay, lesbian, or bisexual persons from military service. Didnt reveal yourself, didn't judge others. -
Defense of Marriage Act
United States federal law that allows states to refuse to recognize same-sex marriages granted under the laws of other states. Until Section 3 of the Act was ruled unconstitutional in 2013, DOMA, in conjunction with other statutes, had barred same-sex married couples from being recognized as "spouses" for purposes of federal laws, effectively barring them from receiving federal marriage benefits. DOMA's passage did not prevent individual states from recognizing gay marriage, but it imposed const -
Illinois is the first state to repeal sodomy laws
Sodomy laws in the United States, which outlawed a variety of sexual acts, were historically universal. While they often targeted sexual acts between persons of the same sex, many statutes employed definitions broad enough to outlaw certain sexual acts between persons of different sexes as well, sometimes even acts between married persons. This was repealed on -
Massachusettes legalizes gay marriage
Massachusetts became the sixth jurisdiction in the world to legalize same-sex marriage. It was also the first state in the United States to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. -
Don't Ask Don't Tell Repealed
The Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010 is a landmark federal statute enacted in December 2010 that established a process for ending the Don't ask, don't tell policy thus allowing gays, lesbians, and bisexuals to serve openly in the United States Armed Forces. It ended the policy in place since 1993 that allowed them to serve only if they kept their sexual orientation secret and the military did not learn of their sexual orientation. -
NAACP Founded
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909. Its mission is "to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination". Its name, retained in accordance with tradition, uses the once common term colored people.
