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More known as the red Scott decision, the Supreme Court decided that the US Constitution was not meant to include American citizenship for black people, regardless of whether they were enslaved or free, and so the rights and privileges that the Constitution confers upon American citizens could not apply to them. This showed that African-Americans had no rights and no citizenship which destroyed many of their hopes at freedom. -
The 13th amendment basically abolished slavery. It stated that neither slavery or involuntary servitude, except as a punishment, shall not take place and exist in the United States. -
This is one of the reconstruction amendments and had multiple sections. First anyone born in the US is a US citizen no matter what, including formerly enslaved people. Also guaranteed all citizens equal protection of the laws. -
The 15th amendment states that no US citizen shall be denied or prohibited from voting. Not on the account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. This however still had to say nothing about women voting and it was still only men. -
This was one of the earliest major cases and decisions to deal with segregation in the school system. The court in 1896 cam to a 7-1 decision in favor of the law, allowing schools to segregate the students and that the treatment wasn't implied to be worse schools, but just different ones. However, this ruling changed decades later with Brown v the Board of Education of Topeka. -
The 19th amendment allowed for women to vote and destroyed the barrier that said if you weren't a man you couldn't vote. This came after many movements and angry women who argues for fair rights and equal voting for decades after black men were able to vote. -
This case dealt with the segregation of schools. The court ruled that even if the schools were kept in the same condition have to segregated schools was unconstitutional. This was a major case because it went in opposition of poesy v Ferguson in which they were told it is allowed to be segregated. -
This Act ended all segregation in public places. It also banned employment discrimination off the basis of either race, color, religion, sex, or their nationality. This is one if the not the biggest jump and accomplishment of the time and to this day for the civil rights movement. -
This is a massive piece of Federal Legislation stating that the United States will not racially discriminate during voting. It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting. Many of these little things would not allow black men and women to vote because they were deprived of many things white American received at the time. -
This was a big decision because this case dealt with sex and the preference given to males for just being a man. They ruled that the estate can not be given or decided to be given based off of solely sex. They ruled that is violated the E1qual Protection clause of the 14th amendment. -
This is a federal civil rights law passed as a part of the education amendment in 1972. This law hopes to protect people from discrimination based on sex in education programs or activities that involve federal money or finance. itle IX Prohibits Sexual Harassment1 and. Sexual Violence Where You Go to School. -
This case was a major decision that actually ended up allowing race to be one of the several factors affecting college admissions policy in how stuns get into college. Using straight racial quotas was unconstitutional, but using it as a part of the application was constitutional in most circumastances. -
This is a civil rights law that will prohibit the discrimination of someone based on if the have a disability or not. This protects Americans with disabilities in several areas, including employment, transportation, public accommodations, communications and access to state and local government' programs and services. -
This is a landmark civil rights case where the Supreme Court ruled that the right to marriage is granted to same-sex marriages. This is both with the due process clause and the Equal Protection clause of the 14th amendment. This case just took place in 2015 and was a big decision made by the Supreme Court.
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