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The DOI is the first place to explain Civil Rights.
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Was the first women's rights convention. It advertised itself as "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman
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This was the abolishment of slavery, taking a stand on civil rights of slaves and blacks.
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Granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included former slaves recently freed.
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Granted black men the right to vote
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This was the first time in U.S. history that a state referendum had passed women's suffrage into law.
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Separate but equal schools for blacks and whites.
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Black civil rights organization. Its mission is "to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination"
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Granted women the right to vote.
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Mandated the firing of all federal employees who were determined to be guilty of “sexual perversion.” Over the next two decades, thousands of gays and lesbians would loose their jobs solely because of their sexual orientation.
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Made it so separate public schools for black and white students are to be unconstitutional
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First decision for LGBT rights in the United States. It was the first U.S. Supreme Court ruling to deal with homosexuality and the first to address free speech rights with respect to homosexuality.
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Until this, it was illegal to engage in any sexual acts if gay.
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You used to have to pay a "poll tax" in order to vote. This ammendment made it so prohibited to take any poll tax in elections for federal officials.
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This act, signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson on July 2, 1964, prohibited discrimination in public places, provided for the integration of schools and other public facilities, and made employment discrimination illegal. This document was the most sweeping civil rights legislation since Reconstruction.
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Prohibits racial discrimination in voting.
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a group of gay customers at a popular gay bar in Greenwich Village called the Stonewall Inn, who had grown angry at the harassment by police, took a stand and a riot broke out.
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Equality in sports for males and females in federally supported schools.
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The APA claimed that they made the change because new research showed that most homosexual people were content with their sexual orientation, and that as a group, they appeared to be as well-adjusted as heterosexual people.
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law that denies legally married same-sex couples
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Marriage is equal between all people.
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U.S. military's 'don't ask, don't tell' policy that prohibits anyone who demonstrates a propensity or intent to engage in homosexual acts from serving in the armed forces.
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Americans now no longer need to hide who they love in order to serve the country they love
