civil rights timeline

  • Dred Scott v Sandford

    Dred Scott v Sandford

    ruled (7–2) that a slave (Dred Scott) who had resided in a free state and territory was not thereby entitled to his freedom, that African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States, and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.3.6.1857
  • 13th Amendment

    13th Amendment

    abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for a crime
  • 14th Amendment

    14th Amendment

    granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States, including former slaves, and guaranteed all citizens “equal protection of the laws.”
  • 15th Amendment

    15th Amendment

    granted African American men the right to vote
  • Plessy v Ferguson

    Plessy v Ferguson

    U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality. "Separate but equal"
  • 19th Amendment

    19th Amendment

    women's right to vote
  • Brown v Board of Education

    Brown v Board of Education

    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
  • Civil Rights Act

    Civil Rights Act

    prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin
  • Voting Rights Act

    Voting Rights Act

    prohibited the states from using literacy tests and other methods of excluding African Americans from voting
  • Reed v Reed

    Reed v Reed

    administrators of estates cannot be named in a way that discriminates between sexes
  • Title IX

    Title IX

    protects from discrimination based on sex in education programs or activities that receive Federal financial assistance
  • Regents of the Uni. of California v Bakke

    Regents of the Uni. of California v Bakke

    the court said that racial quotas violated equal protection under the law in the 14th amendment
  • Americans with Disabilities Act

    Americans with Disabilities Act

    prohibits discrimination based on disability
  • Obergefell v Hodges

    Obergefell v Hodges

    Supreme Court 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

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