Civile Roits TImLion

  • Dred Scott vs Sanford

    Dred Scott vs Sanford

    1857 case decision stated that slaves were not citizens, but rather property. This made the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional.
  • 13th Amendment

    13th Amendment

    This prohibited all forms of slavery/involuntary servitude. During the midst of the civil war, this decision made it so any new state re-entering the Union having to abide by this new law
  • 14th Amendment

    14th Amendment

    Gave Citizenship to everyone born in the United States.
  • 15th Amendment

    15th Amendment

    Voting rights are granted to all no matter their race.
  • Plessy vs Ferguson

    Plessy vs Ferguson

    Legalized segregation in public facilities.
  • 19th Amednment

    19th Amednment

    All United States citizens are allowed to vote no matter their gender.
  • Brown vs Board of Education

    Brown vs Board of Education

    This overturned the Plessy vs. Ferguson "separate but not equal" discriminatory standard in education.
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin is now outlawed.
  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Law designed to end the barriers set by white people to black people being able to vote.
  • Reed vs Reed

    Reed vs Reed

    Supreme Court case talks on gender discrimination. The case made Idaho law invalid which made it so that men were no longer preferred over women in court selection of an estate's administor.
  • Title IX

    Title IX

    The new united states law makes it so that regardless of sexl orientation be denied benefits such as Federal financial assistance or education.
  • Regents of the University of California vs Bakke

    Regents of the University of California vs Bakke

    Colleges and universities are abe to consider a person's race as an admission factor as a privately owned facility.
  • Americans With Disabilities Act

    Americans With Disabilities Act

    The passed law requires that employers and public facilities make reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities and prohibits employment discrimination based on this premise.
  • Obergefell vs Hodges

    Obergefell vs Hodges

    Gay marriage is legalized.

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