Civil Rights Project

  • Dred Scott v. Sanford

    Dred Scott v. Sanford

    This was a court about Dred Scott (who lived in a free state) who tried to claim his freedom but was not allowed because he was considered property and therefore not entitled to freedom. This also confirmed that African Americans were not and could not be citizens.
  • 13th Amendment

    13th Amendment

    This amendment abolished slavery and forced servitude in the US.
    It came soon after the emancipation proclamation.
  • 14th Amendment

    14th Amendment

    This amendment was part of the big 3 that were introduced during reconstruction. This one allowed for all persons born on US soil are naturalized citizens even those that were former slaves. It also guarantees equal protection of the laws to all citizens.
  • 15th Amendment

    15th Amendment

    This forbids the segregation of voting among US citizens.
  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    Plessy v. Ferguson

    This landmark case implemented the phrase "separate but equal" and that gave way to Jim Crow laws becoming commonplace.
  • 19th Amendment

    19th Amendment

    This gave women the right to vote. It is Women's suffrage.
  • Brown v. Board of Education

    Brown v. Board of Education

    This case determined that segregation by race in public schools is unconstitutional.
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Civil Rights Act of 1964

    This act banned discrimination of employment based on race, color, religion, sex, or nationality.
  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Voting Rights Act of 1965

    This outlawed discriminatory voting practices that most southern states implemented through Jim Crow Laws. Such things as literacy tests.
  • Reed v. Reed

    Reed v. Reed

    This was a court ruling that said that administrators of estates cannot be names in a way that discriminates between sexes.
  • Title IX

    Title IX

    This act made it so that nobody on the basis of sex can be excluded from participation in or be denied the benefits of any education program or program that is federally funded.
  • Regent of UC v. Bakke

    Regent of UC v. Bakke

    This ruled that racial quotas in its administrative process is unconstitutional but a schools use of affirmative action to accept more minority applicants is acceptable in some cases.
  • Americans with Disabilities Act

    Americans with Disabilities Act

    Discrimination against people with disabilities is unconstitutional in all areas of life. Including school and jobs, ect.
  • Obergefell v. Hodges

    Obergefell v. Hodges

    This case made it so that gay couples' marriages are valid and those pre-existing state laws that were against same-sex marriage were unconstitutional.

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