Civil Rights Timeline

  • Dred Scott v. Sanford

    Dred Scott v. Sanford

    The Supreme Court ruled those of African American descent, whether free or enslaved, were not considered American citizens.
  • 13th Amendment

    13th Amendment

    Slavery shall not exist in the United States, in any place subject to their jurisdiction.
  • 14th Amendment

    14th Amendment

    All persons born ir naturalized in the United States of America are citizens of the US and of the State wherein they reside.
  • 15th Amendment

    15th Amendment

    The right of any citizen in the United States of America shall not be violated or restricted on account of race, color, or prevision condition of servitude.
  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    Plessy v. Ferguson

    Upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality.
  • 19th Amendment

    19th Amendment

    The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be obtained or abridged by the United States or any State on account of sex.
  • Brown v. Board of Education

    Brown v. Board of Education

    Ruled that the 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 of 1964

    Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Outlawing the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southerns states after the Civil War.
  • Reed v. Reed

    Reed v. Reed

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

    Title IX

    Law passed as part of the Education Amendments of 1972, which protects people from discrimination based on sex in education programs or activities that receive Federal financial assistance.
  • Regents of the University of California v. Bakke

    Regents of the University of California v. Bakke

    Allowing race to be one of the several factors in college admission policy.
  • Americans with Disabilities Act

    Americans with Disabilities Act

    A Civil Law that prohibits discrimination based on disability.
  • Obergefell v. Hodges

    Obergefell v. Hodges

    The 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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