Protest 470

Events and Acts That Have Furthered Civil Rights

By Cantolope

  • The Civil War

  • The Thirteenth Amendment

    Illegalizes slavery.

  • 14th Amendment

    Due Process and Equal Protection.

  • Brown vs BOE

    ruled seperate but equal doctrine

  • Equal Pay Act of 1963.

    Illegal to base pay on ethnicity, religion, gender, r national origin.

  • Civil Rights Act

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Counteracts voting discrimination.

  • Civil Rights Act of 1968

    Eased restrictions against filing suit for discrimatory hiring practices.

  • Civil Rights Act Title VIII

    Disbanded racial discrimination in housing.