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The 13th amendment declared that "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime where of the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
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Gave citizenship to all people born in the United States.
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Gave African American men the right to vote.
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The state of Louisiana enacted a law that required separate railway cars for blacks and whites. In 1892, Homer Adolph Plessy--who was seven-eighths Caucasian--took a seat in a "whites only" car of a Louisiana train. He refused to move to the car reserved for blacks and was arrested.
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African American women was turned away from a "whites" only school and her father was heated by this so he took 4 schools to court and won.
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Until the late 1940s the public education system in Texas for Mexican Americans offered segregated campuses with often minimal facilities and a curriculum frequently limited to vocational training.
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Sweatt was rejected into college becasue of his race. So when he went to court the tried making everything equal.
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Pete Hernandez was indicted for murder. when he went to court he had thought they were racist towards mexicans.
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black students were denied into schools and then black and white came together to migrate.
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The new act established the Civil Rights Section of the Justice Department and empowered federal prosecutors to obtain court injunctions against interference with the right to vote.
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the right of any citizens to vote in any primary elcetion.
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the act to have equal employment opportunities
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aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote under the 15th Amendment (1870) to the Constitution of the United States
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In Travis County on behalf of the Edgewood Independent School District, San Antonio, citing discrimination against students in poor school districts.
