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Court held that the US Constitution was not meant to include American citizenship for black people, regardless of whether they were enslaved or free, and so the rights and privileges that the Constitution confers upon American citizens could not apply to them
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abolished slavery
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granted citizenship to all persons born in United States
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right to vote shall not be denied on the account of race, color, or condition of servitude
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Court held that state-mandated segregation laws did not violate the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment -
women's right to vote
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Admitted Native Americans Full Citizenship
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Court ruled racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional
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established commission on Civil Rights to investigate violations
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established federal inspection of local voter registration polls
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More than 200,000 people of all races congregated in Washington, D. C. for the peaceful march with the main purpose of forcing civil rights legislation and establishing job equality for everyone
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prohibits conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of poll tax or other types of tax
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outlaws discrimination bases on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin
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outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting
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prohibits discrimination concerning the sale , rental or financing based on race religion, sex , and national origin
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required the voting age to be 18 in all federal, state, and local elections
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right to vote to citizens 18 and older
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right to privacy that protects a pregnant woman's right to choose whether or not to have an abortion
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expanded voting rights for minority groups that traditionally had fallen outside the Act's protections
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explicitly ban any voting practice that had a discriminatory effect, irrespective of whether the practice was enacted or operated for a discriminatory purpose
