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14th Amendment
ranted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States including former enslaved people and guaranteed all citizens equal protection of the laws. -
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15th Amendment
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 condition of servitude. -
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The 1st Woman's Suffrage Amendment was introduced in Congress, but was defeated
The first federal woman's suffrage amendment was introduced but was soundly defeated later in the first full Senate vote in 1887. -
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Plessy v. Ferguson
Hat upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the separate but equal doctrine. -
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NAACP is founded
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19th Amendment
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. -
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Shelly v. Kramer
A landmark United States Supreme Court case that struck down racially restrictive housing covenants. -
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Brown v. Board of Education
The Supreme Court ruled that separating children in public schools on the basis of race was unconstitutional. -
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
Prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. -
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Congress passes the 1st Civil Rights act
The Civil Rights of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Provisions of the civil rights act forbade discrimination on the basis of sex, as well as, race in hiring, promoting, and firing. -
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NOW: National Organization of Women
An organization of women who were dedicated to actively challenging gender discrimination in all areas of American society. -
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Green v. County School Board of New Kent County
A "freedom-of-choice" provision in a Virginia school board's desegregation plan was unacceptable. -
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Swann v Charlotte-Mecklenburg board of education
Upheld busing programs that aimed to speed up the racial integration of public schools in the United States. -
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Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat
Parks was arrested on December 1, 1885, after she refused to give up her seat on a crowded bus to a white passenger. -
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Proposition 209 - California
Amended the state constitution to prohibit state governmental institutions from considering race, gender, or ethnicity.