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Led to our independence. Justified our right to revolt against a government that no longer guaranteed us our natural rights.
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Worked at obtaining women's equal rights
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Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted,
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Addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws
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Granted African American men the right to vote.
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Women had to fight for the right to vote in Colorado.
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The state of Louisiana enacted a law that required separate railway cars for blacks and whites.
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An African-American civil rights organization who sought to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination.
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Granted American women the right to vote—a right known as woman suffrage.
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It revoked President Truman's 1947 Executive Order 9835 and dismantled its Loyalty Review Board program.
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Overruled segregation in schools, declaring that it was "inherently unequal" to maintain separate institutions.
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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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Adopted the recommendations of the Model Penal Code and thus became the first state to remove criminal penalties for consensual sodomy from its criminal code.
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Prohibits any poll tax in elections for federal officials.
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Outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
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Prohibits racial discrimination in voting.
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Series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the gay community against a police raid. They are widely considered to constitute the single most important event leading to the gay liberation movement and the modern fight for LGBT rights in the US.
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No one shall be excluded from participating any federally funded education program or activity based on sex.
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Originally listed as a "sociopathic personality disturbance", homosexuality was "upgraded" to a mere "sexual deviation".
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Kept military personnel from discriminating against or harassing people of different sexual orientations.
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United States federal law that allows states to refuse to recognize same-sex marriages.
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It was the first U.S. state to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
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Eliminated the Dont Ask Dont Tell Act
