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Dred Scott v. Sandford
Supreme Court ruled that slaves were not citizens and thus did not enjoy the privaledges of the courts and Congress had not power to limit slavery in the territories. -
13th Ammendment
Outlawed slavery -
Poll Taxes: Reconstruction Era
Tax on voting, kept poor and especially African Americans from voting -
White Primaries: REconstruction Era
Only whties could participate in the primary and thus disenfranchising African Americans -
14th Ammendment
Granted equal protection of the laws to all citizens -
15th Ammenment
Prohibited the prohibition of the right to vote based on race, ethnicity, or previous condition of servitude -
Plessy v. Ferguson
Upheld seperate but equal as justification for segregation by race. -
19th Ammendment
Gave woman the right to vote. -
Equal Rights Ammendment
Introduced in 1923, failed to get enough votes. Equal protection under the laws would not be abridged on account of sex. -
Brown v. Board of Education
Seperate but equal not a valid justification for segregation in public schools -
Affirmative Action
Movement that gained momentum in the 1960s that would give preferential treatment to historically disadvantaged or disenfranchised minorities -
24th Ammendment
Outlawed the poll tax -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Outlawed discrimintation based on ethnicicty, religoius views, or gender. -
Voting Rightrs Act of 1965
Prohibits discrimintion in voting, specifically race or color -
Reed v. Reed
Laws cannot give preference to men in cases of inheritance -
REgents of the University of California v. Bakke
Race can be used as a determining factor in college admissions but cannot be sole determining factor, as suppervised by strict judicial scrutiny. -
Bowers v. Hardwick
Upheld an anti-sodomy law, has since been reversed. -
Americans with Disabilities Act
Mandate that all public facilities must make reasonable accomadations for the disabled. -
Lawrence v. Texas
Struck down the anti-somy ruling in Bowers v. Hardwick. -
Fisher v. Univeristy of Texas
Brought to courts in 2008, has not yet been decided. Case dealing with the University of Texas not obeying to the strict scrutiny standards set out in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke.
