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13th amendment
Ratified on December 6,1865.
The 13th amendment invloves abolishing slavery and any non involuntary servitude for a crime or punishment. The 13th amendment was passed at the end of the civil war -
14th amendment
As one of the reconstruction amendments the 14th amendment grants citizens of the united states equal rights and protection. -
15th amendment
the 15th amendment prohibits the goverment from stopping any citizen from the right to vote due to race, color, or previous condition.
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Jim Crow Laws
Jim Crow Laws stated that white and blacks were seperate but equal.
examples include: schools, water foutains, bathrooms, and public transportation
this ended in 1965 -
Literacy Test
Literacy Tests were used to restrict people from voting. This ended in 1960 -
Plessy Vs Ferguson
under the 14th amendment the court decided that segregation was constitutional as long as they provide euqal things for both races. -
19th amendment
Prohibits any united states citizen from being denied the right to vote becuase of sex. -
Bowers v. Hardwick
Hardwick was oberved by a police officer while engaging in a act of homosexual sodomy with another adult in his bed room upon arrest. Hardwick challenged court claiming it was unconsitutional but failed becuase he didnt have a claim -
Poll Tax
As part of Jim Crow Laws states would tax people when voting. a total of $2.00 was taxed to anyone who wanted to vote, On April 8, 1966 they found it unconstiutional for the states to tax voters -
Korematsu v. United States
United States Supreme Court case concerning Japanese Americans into internment camps during World War II regardless of citizenship.In a 6-3 decision, the Court sided with the government,[2] ruling that the exclusion order was constitutional. -
Sweatt vs Paniter
courts ruled that the sepreate but equal facilites was not accurate and that african americans were not reciveing the same rights and things as whites. -
Brown Vs Borad Of Education
Courtsdeclared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
1955-1956 The montgomery bus boycott started when rosa parks refused to give her seat up for a white person on a bus. This started afican americans to start sitting in the white sections on buses and other white only places. -
Affirmative action
Affirmative action is intended to promote the opportunities of defined minority groups within a society to give them equal access to that of the privileged majority population. -
24th amendment
The 24th amendment prohibits the state and congress from charging poll tax for someone to vote.
most southern states used poll taxes to stop african americans from voting. -
Civil Rights Act
This movement outlawed any discrimination based on race, color, sex,religion, or national origian, -
Voting Rights Act
The voting rights Act of 1965 prohibits any racial discrimination in voting. -
Robert Kennedy speech over MLK
Robert Kennedy upon the death of MLK gave a speech in Indianapolis, Indiana. The speech he gave was one of compassion and peace between both whites and blacks. -
Reed vs Reed
was an Equal Protection case in the United States in which the Supreme Court ruled that the administrators of estates cannot be named in a way that discriminates between sexes. -
Euqal Rights Amendment
Desigend to make equal rights for women. -
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
a landmark decision by the Supreme Court it allowing race to be one of several factors in college admission policy. However, the court ruled that specific quotas, such as the 16 out of 100 seats set aside for minority students -
Americans With Disabilites
afford similar protections against discrimination, race , religion, and sex to anyone with a mental or pyical condition. -
Lawrence v. Texas
In the 6–3 ruling, the Court struck down the sodomy law in Texas and, by extension, invalidated sodomy laws in thirteen other states, making same-sex sexual activity legal in every U.S. state and territory. The Court overturned its previous ruling on the same issue in the 1986 case Bowers v. Hardwick, where it upheld a challenged Georgia statute and did not find a constitutional protection of sexual privacy. -
Fisher v. University of Texas
Supreme Court in the previous summer. In a 2-1 decision, the Fifth Circuit found in favor of UT Austin. In its decision, the majority wrote, “It is equally settled that universities may use race as part of a holistic admissions program where it cannot otherwise achieve diversity.” -
Idiana's Gay Rights
the Hoosier State became the 20th state to allow same-sex marriage. Same-sex sexual activity is legal in Indiana. Some same-sex couples obtained marriage licenses in Indiana in June 2014 during a two-day period between a U.S. district court's ruling that the state's ban was unconstitutional and a higher court's stay of that ruling.
