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the 13th amendment is in affect to abolish slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.Congress passed this amendment on January 31 1865
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Feb 11 - 18, 1856
Dred Scott was a slave in the missosuri area. He than later resided in a free state of Illinois. After returning to the Missouri area, he filed for a suit regarding his freedom. -
The 14th amendment granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States, including former enslaved people. This also granted all citizens "equal protection of the laws"
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The Fifteenth Amendment would guarantee protection against racial discrimination in voting.
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A case in which the Court held that state-mandated segregation laws did not violate the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Prohibits the states from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex, in effect recognizing the right of women to a vote
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Topeka was a landmark 1954 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
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It is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting.
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A landmark decision of the US Supreme Court ruling that the administrators of estates cannot be named in a way that discriminates between sexes.
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Prohibits sex-based discrimination in any school or other education program that receives federal money.
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It upheld affirmative action, allowing race to be one of several factors in college admission policy.
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The act prohibits discrimination against people with a disability in several areas, including employment, transportation, public accommodations, communications and access to state and local government' programs and services.
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Obergefell overturned Baker and requires all states to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples and to recognize same-sex marriages validly performed in other jurisdictions.