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This amendment had abolished slavery and involuntary servitude.
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This amendment made all people born in the United States, including former slaves, citizens and gave them equal protection under law.
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This amendment prohibits denial of voting rights to people because of race, color, or the fact that they have been slaves.
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This case declares seperate but equal rights for the white and colored races. It indicated that the federal government will officially tolerate the seperate but equal doctrine.
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This amendment gauranteed woment the right to vote.
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President Truman issued the Executive Order of 1948 which established the treatment and oppurtunity in the Armed Services.
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Parks was a American American who was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for no letting a white person take her seat.
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott began after Rosa Parks arrest. It was a 13-month protest that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional.
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This was the first civil rights legislation since Reconstruction. It gave attorney general greater power to desegregate schools and said that the federal government had athority over African American voting segregations.
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This amendment gave the right of citizens in the United States to vote in any relection shall not be denied by the United States for the reason of failure to pay poll tax or other tax.
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This Supreme Court case ended segregation in schools.
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This law was passed by President Lyndon B. Johnson. It prohibited racial discrimination in emploment and education and made segregation in public places illegal.
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Signed by President Johnson and this bill garunteed African Americans the right to vote.
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This act prohibited the sale, rental, and financing of houses based on race, religion, or gender. This act is also known as the Fair Housing Act.
