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Scotts v. Sanford
Was a slave but they lived in Missouri (banned slavery) after guy died (owner) wanted to buy freedom but wife said no. He was living in a free state but he was a slave.He was seen as property.(all slaves were seen as property). -
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Reconstruction & Reconstruction Amendments
The 13th, 14th, 15th, 19th, and the 24th
This started helping the country get rid of slavery. -
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Jim Crow Era
Laws that were set to make it harder for African Americans to vote aka Grandfather Clause, Literacy Tests, and Poll Taxes. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
The African American man sat in the white section on a train and they told hime to go to his section. He said that this was violating his equal protection rights. He took it to court and the court said that they were separate but equal. That is when the courts set the doctrine "Separate but Equal". -
The 19th Amendment
It allowed women the right to vote. -
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Scottsboro Boys
They were accused of raping two women when they were innocent. They were stripped of some of their due process rights. -
The George Stinney Case
A 14 year old boy who was executed for the murder of two little girls but he was innocent. -
Brown V. Board
There were two schools a black school and a white school and they were separate but equal. Then the courts looked at the kids and it showed that the kids who go to the black school feel inferior to the white kids. The courts ruled that unconstitutional and stopped school segregation. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Outlawed discrimination between gender, race, or religion -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Got rid of laws that made it harder to stop others from voting. -
Civil Rights Act of 1968
Prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin and sex. -
California V. Bakke
The Supreme Court ruled that a university's use of racial "quotas" in its admissions process was unconstitutional, but a school's use of "affirmative action" to accept more minority applicants was constitutional in some circumstances.
