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African Americans - 3/5 Compromise
In order to determine the population of a state only 3 of 5 slaves would count. -
African Americans - 15th Amendment
Granted African-American men the right to vote. -
Hispanic Americans - Multi-member electoral districts in Texas outlawed
electoral districts that send two or more members to a legislative chamber.there are two other electoral systems employed in the United States, single-member and at-large. -
Women - Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions is signed
Outlined the rights that American women should be entitled to as citizens, that emerged from the Seneca Falls Convention in New York -
Scott v. Sandford
Scott was a slave and ran to a free state but his owner said that he had to be returned because he was still a slave. Supreme Court ruled that African Americans could not sue cause they were not citizens. -
African Americans - 13th Amendment
“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” (end of slavery, not racism) -
African Americans - 14th Amendment
Granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and slaves who had been emancipated after the American Civil War. -
African Americans - Plessy v. Ferguson
Supreme Court ruled "separate but equal". Plessy rode a white train car being black because he was against this segregation but the Supreme Court backed up Louisiana, "separate but equal". -
African Americans - Founding of the NAACP
The NAACP, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, is a civil rights organization founded in 1909 to fight prejudice, lynching, and Jim Crow segregation, and to work for the betterment of "people of color." -
Women - 19th Amendment
Gave women the right to vote. -
Women - ERA introduced into Congress
It would give men and women full equality under the law. -
Smith v. Allwright
The Court reasoned that the rule restricting primary voters to whites denied Smith equal protection under the law in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. -
African Americans - Truman orders the desegregation of armed forces
Executive order that orders the desegregation of the armed forces. "It is hereby declared to be the policy of the President that there shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion, or national origin." -
African Americans - Brown v. Board of Education
Separate but equal is not equal. Everything has to be fairly equal. Segregation in public schools is unconstitutional. -
Hispanic Americans - Hernandez v. Texas
Supreme court case that declared Mexican Americans had the right to jury and all other racial groups had equal protection under the 14th amendment. -
African Americans - Little Rock Nine
Group of nine black students who enrolled at formerly all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Orval Faubus called in the Arkansas National Guard to block their entry Later that month, President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent in federal troops to escort the Little Rock Nine into the school. -
African Americans - 24th Amendment
Outlawed the poll tax as a voting requirement in federal elections. Took away thing like Jim Crow laws. -
African Americans - Civil Rights Act of 1964
Ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. -
African Americans - Voting Rights Act of 1965
Law enforcement of African Americans being able to vote without loopholes. -
Hispanic Americans - Cesar Chavez publicizes the plight of migrant workers
Cesar Chavez and the farm workers he had been organizing in the National Farm Workers Association joined the strike. ... In 1966, Chavez and a group of strikers set out on a 340-mile march from Delano to Sacramento to draw attention to plight of farm workers, and during this strike the union won its first contract. -
Women - National Organization of Women Organized
Dedicated to its multi-issue and multi-strategy approach to women’s rights. NOW -
Hispanic Americans - Founding of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF)
non-profit civil rights organization formed in 1968 to protect the rights of Latinos in the United States -
African Americans - Jones v. Mayer
Jones a black man charged that a real estate company in Missouri's St. Louis County refused to sell him a home in a particular neighborhood on account of his race. Supreme Court sided with him. -
Sexual Orientation - Stonewall Riots
series of violent confrontations that began in the early hours of June 28, 1969, between police and gay rights activists outside the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar. BIRTH OF GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT. -
Women - Reed v. Reed
Court held that the law's dissimilar treatment of men and women was unconstitutional. The Court argued that "[t]o give a mandatory preference to members of either sex over members of the other, merely to accomplish the elimination of hearings on the merits, is to make the very kind of arbitrary legislative choice forbidden by the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. . .[T]he choice in this context may not lawfully be mandated solely on the basis of sex." -
Women - ERA passed by Congress
It would give men and women full equality under the law. EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT -
Women - Title IX
Equal opportunity at school events, programs, clubs for every student. -
Women - Congress opens all military service academies to women
Women were allowed to become armed forces of the army, navy etc. -
Women - Craig v. Boren
Unconstitutional gender classifications on drinking that got taken away by the Supreme Court -
Women - Dothard v. Rawlinson
Rawlinson wanted to be a prison guard but didn't meat the physical requirements. The Supreme Court sided with her and agreed that this was discrimination. -
Hispanic Americans - Plyer v. Doe
The Supreme Court ruled that a Texas law forbidding illegal immigrants to attend public school was unconstitutional because it violated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment. -
Women - Civil rights and Women's Equity in Employment Act
employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, and national origin was outlawed -
Sexual orientation - "Don't Ask Don't Tell"
LGBTQ could be in military but could not say anything about their sexual orientation. -
Sexual Orientation - Defense of Marriage Act
Prior to being ruled unconstitutional, defined marriage for federal purposes as the union of one man and one woman, and allowed states to refuse to recognize same-sex marriages granted under the laws of other states. -
Sexual Orientation - Massachusetts Legalizes Same Sex Marriage
First stae to recognize same sex marriage -
Sexual Orientation - United States v. Windsor
U.S was trying to say that this women and her dead wife's marriage didn't count. Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional. -
Sexual Orientation - Obergfell v Hodges
Same sex marriage made legal. -
Sexual orientation - Masterpiece Cakeshop v Colorado
Baker could not make gay cake because it went agains his religion. Supreme Court agreed.
