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The first Civil rights act was one that defined citizenship and guaranteed our rights were protected by the law.
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The 14th Amendment was an amendment that granted citizenship, equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and enslaved people.
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The 15th amendment gave the people the right to vote and not be denied because of “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”
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It was the first federal women's suffrage amendment that was introduced but was soundly defeated later in the first full Senate vote.
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This court case was decided by the U.S. Supreme court. It was basically a decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine.
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The NAACP states for National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The NAACP's main goal was to ensure the political, educational, equality of minority group citizens of States and eliminate race prejudice.
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The 19th Amendment was an amendment that basically gave women the right to vote.
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The Shelly v. Kramer was a U.S. Supreme Court case that held that restrictive covenants in real property deeds which prohibited the sale of property to non-Caucasians unconstitutionally violate the equal protection provision of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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The Brown v. Board of Education was a court case that basically was about the “separate, but equal” doctrine legalized in Plessy v. In the end the Court declared that racial segregation in public schools violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man on a crowed bus. This soon started the montgomery bus boycott.
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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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NOW stood for National Organization of Women and was formed in washington d.c. on 1966.
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The Court case Green v. County School Board of New Kent County was about school desegregation. The Court dealt with the freedom of choice plans created to avoid compliance with the Supreme Court's mandate in Brown II in 1955.
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Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, case in which, on April 20, 1971, the Supreme Court of the United States unanimously upheld busing programs that aimed to speed up the racial integration of public schools in the United States. Indeed, busing was used by white officials to maintain segregation.
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Proposition 209 (also known as the California Civil Rights Initiative or CCRI) 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.