Civil Rights Time-Toast

By ashliandmegan

  • 14th Amendment

    This amendment addresses equal protection of the laws and rights of the people. No person was allowed to be deprived of life, liberty, or property without the "due process"

  • 13th Amendment

    This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.

  • 15th Amendment

    The 15th amendment overturned the preexisting statue prohibiting African- American citizens from suffrage such as slavery. This was passed by Congress the year before the amendment reads: “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 previous condition of servitude.”

  • Plessy V. Ferguson

    "Seperate but equal"

  • 19th Amendment

    The 19th amendment to the U.S Constitution granted American women the right to vote- a right known as "woman suffrage".

  • Equal Rights Amendment

    A proposed amendment designed to guarantee equal rights for women.

  • Korematsu vs. United States

    This case involved the Japanese Americans into internment camps during WW11 regardless of citizenship. 6 of the 8 appointees sided with it being constitutional.

  • Sweatt vs.Painter

    A case that challenged the “Separate but equal” doctrine established by the Plessy v. Ferguson case in 1896.

  • Brown vs. Board of Education

    State laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    This boycott is when African Americans refused to ride busses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating.

  • Affirmative Action

    This was also known as “Positive Discrimination”.

  • Poll Taxes

    A poll tax is one imposed equally on all adults at the time of voting and is not affected by property ownership or income.

  • Civil Right Act of 1964

    This is a landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

  • Literacy Tests

    Literacy test was not really a reading test because the results were rigged by biased registrars who judged.

  • Voting RIghts Act of 1965

    This is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the US that prohibits racial discrimination in voting.

  • Jim Crow

    The Jim Crow Laws were racial segregation state and local laws that happened after the Reconstruction period in Southern States.

  • Reed vs. Reed

    A Equal Protection case that states a person cannot be named in a way that discriminate between sexes.

  • Bowers vs. Hardwick

    A decision overturned in 2003, Georgia law criminalizing oral and anal sex in private between consenting adults when applied to homosexuals.

  • 24th Amendment

    This amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits a poll tax for voters in the federal elections.

  • Fisher vs. Texas

    Another case concerning the Affirmative Action admissions policy of University of Texas at Austin.