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The United States Supreme Court ruled that African Americans who were descendants of slaves did not have the right to citizenship.
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Amendment passed by Abraham Lincoln that abolished slavery
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Gave citizenship and equal/legal rights to African Americans annd slaves who had been emancipated after the Civil War.
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The Federal government cannot deny a citizen's right to vote based on race, or past "servitude"
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In this case segregation was kept legal as long as the facilities were equal in quality. Known as "separate but equal".
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Method used by white democrats to not give minorities and blacks the right to vote.
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This amendment prohibits the federal and state government from denying the person a right to vote based on their sex.
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In the Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka case the court ruled that racial segregation in school is unconstitutional.
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The term "affirmative action" was first used by President Kennedy to label and remedy persisting discrimination that disregarded civil rights laws and constitutional guarantees.
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The use of poll taxes were abolished in federal elections but not specifically in state elections.
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This amendment restricts the congress and states from denying a person their right to vote due to not paying poll tax or any other taxes.
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This act outlawed discrimination based on race, color, sex, religion, and/or nationality.
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This law was signed in by President Lyndon B. Johnson to help prevent African Americans from being denied the right to vote which is guaranteed by the 15th Amendment.
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This was an equal protection case where the supreme court ruled administrators of estates cannot be discriminatory of the sexes in it's name.
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This was a proposed amendment to the US Constitution to give guaranteed equal legal rights for every American citizen.
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Case where the supreme court decided that gave affirmative action to allow race to be one of many factors in college admission policy
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In this case, the constitution was upheld because of Georgia's law that criminalizes sodomy. However, there was no law differentiating between homosexual and heterosexual sodomy-so the case was overturned.
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This act was passed and signed into law by George H.W. Bush and it restricts discrimination of people with any form of disability.
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The court ruled that laws prohibiting private homosexual activity of consenting adults was unconstitutional.
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The states ruled that same-sex couples have the right to marry under the constitution.
