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Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence, besides declaring that the colonies were now an independent nation, also set forth the reasons why we were breaking from Great Britain. It established the reasons for the colonies declaring independence. -
Seneca Falls Convention
The Seneca Falls Convention was one of the first women's rights convention. It was organized by a handful of women who were active in the abolition and temperance movements, which was held in July 19–20, 1848. The purpose of the convention was to discuss the social, civil, and religious situations and rights of woman publicly. -
Thirtheenth Amendment
Ended slavery so that the African-Americans and many other non-white Americans can have many equalities; rights to vote, end wrongful degrading slavery, and have many other opportunities and career such as whites. -
Fourteenth Amendment
The 14th Amendment states that all citizens of the United States have the right to due process of law, regardless of race or any other reason that people came up with for denying due process. -
Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude." -
Plessy vs Ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson established the "separate but equal" clause saying that Jim Crow laws were constitutional and that blacks and whites could be separated, i.e. water fountains, buses, schools, while still being equal. -
colorado becomes first state to grant women the right to vote
A referendum on women's suffrage was held in the U.S. state of Colorado on November 7, 1893 to ratify a proposed constitutional amendment, HB 118,[1] allowing women the right to vote. The amendment passed with support from the Colorado Non-Partisan Equal Suffrage Association, a grassroots coalition of women's organizations, churches, political parties, charity groups, unions and farmer's alliances. This was the first time in U.S. history that a state referendum had passed women's suffrage into l -
NAACP is Founded
It's establishment was key in setting up the civil right's movement concerning African- American rights. It's original leader, W.E.B Du Bois took the stance of no tolerance of prejudice. He was very adamant in his actions, and this translated into the inner workings of the organization itself. -
Nineteenth Amendment
The amendment prohibits any United States citizen from being denied the right to vote on the basis of sex. The amendment was the culmination of the women's suffrage movement in the United States, which fought at both state and national levels to achieve the vote. -
Executive Order 10450
Executive Order 10450, Security Requirements for Government Employment, April 27, 1953 Requires that all persons employed in Government departments and agencies be reliable, trustworthy, of good conduct and character, and of complete and unswerving loyalty to the United States -
Brown vs Board of Education
This event was important because it overruled segregation in schools, declaring that it was "inherently unequal" to maintain separate institutions. The previous logic to segregation was that the institutions were "separate but equal." -
One, Inc v. Olesen
In One, Inc., v. Olesen, a fledgling Los Angeles–based magazine seeking to advance the interests of homosexuals sued after the Post Office declared it obscene and banned its distribution through the mail. Against long odds, facing the full force of the federal government, and with little support from the civil libertarians of the day, the small publication persevered to the Supreme Court—and its unexpected victory there opened up legal space for other dissenting and unpopular opinions to thrive. -
Illionois becomes first state to reappeal its sodomoy laws
Illinois became the first state to repeal its anti-sodomy law. Ask most anyone on the street what sodomy is and it's likely they won't be able to give you specifics - but they know it has something to do with turning into a pillar of salt. The fact that the definition refers to any sex act that isn't "natural" is of little help. (The song Sodomy from the Broadway show Hair offered some help.) Also, many don't realize that such laws pertained to heterosexuals as well as homosexuals (but prosec -
Twenty-fourth Amendment
This amendment give the u.s citizens the rights to vote and these rights shall not be denied or abridged. -
Civil Rights act 1964
The act outlawed segregation in all public places, requiresd employers to provide equal opportunity for those of all races, and threatened to pull federal funding from any projects that discriminate based on color, race, ethnicity, or gender. -
Voting rights of 1964
This act was signed into law on August 6, 1965, by President Lyndon Johnson. It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting. -
defense of marriage act
The Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) (Pub.L. 104–199, 110 Stat. 2419, enacted September 21, 1996, 1 U.S.C. § 7 and 28 U.S.C. § 1738C) is a United States federal law that allows states to refuse to recognize same-sex marriages granted under the laws of other states. -
stonewall inn riots
Something unremarkable happened on June 28, 1969 in New York’s Greenwich Village, an event which had occurred a thousand times before across the U.S. over the decades. The police raided a gay bar. -
Title IX
Title IX is the federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in schools that receive federal funding — including in their athletics programs. Since it became law in 1972, NWLC has worked hard to ensure that women and girls are treated fairly in athletics programs -
massuchusetts legalizes gay marriage
Goodridge v. Mass. Department of Public Health , 440 Mass. 309 (2003). Massachusetts' "gay marriage" decision. "Barred access to the protections, benefits, and obligations of civil marriage, a person who enters into an intimate, exclusive union with another of the same sex is arbitrarily deprived of membership in one of our community's most rewarding and cherished institutions. That exclusion is incompatible with the constitutional principles of respect for individual autonomy and equality under -
APA removes homosexuality as a mental disorder
The American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-I) classified homosexuality as a mental illness beginning in 1952. Before then, psychiatrists and psychologists looked at homosexuality as a perversion and as a deviant behavior, but the idea that it was a mental illness was considerably more controversial. -
Don't Ask Don't Tell
Don't ask don't tell is a military policy against enlisting homosexuals, and that so long as you were not flaunting it (telling), they wouldn't ask and you could remain a service member.
