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The supreme court ruled that if you have African decent you are not a citizen. Therefore you could not vote or sue in the Federal Courts of the United States.
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The 13th amendment abolished slavery and stated there shall be no more slavery and involuntary servitude.
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All person born in the United States are U.S. citizens.
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The rights of citizens to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States.
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was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality – a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal"
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prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex.
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a tax levied on every adult, without reference to income or resources.
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were primary elections held in the Southern United States in which only white voters were permitted to participate.
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was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality.
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in the United States is a set of laws, policies, guidelines, and administrative practices "intended to end and correct the effects of a specific form of discrimination"
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Prohibits poll taxes in elections for federal officers
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is a landmark civil rights and labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin
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is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting.
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was an Equal Protection case in the United States in which the Supreme Court ruled that the administrators of estates cannot be named in a way that discriminates between sexes.
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is a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution designed to guarantee equal legal rights for all American citizens regardless of sex
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was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States. It upheld affirmative action, allowing race to be one of several factors in college admission policy
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the constitutionality of a Georgia sodomy law criminalizing oral and anal sex in private between consenting adults, in the homosexual sodomy
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is a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination based on disability
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was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that American laws prohibiting private homosexual activity between consenting adults are unconstitutional
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is a landmark civil rights case in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the fundamental right to marry is guaranteed to same-sex couples by both the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution