Laws
This law protected people with a disability against discrimination.
The ADA - Americans with Disabilities Act
This Amendment states that "the right to vote shall not be denied on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
The 15th Amendment
The right to vote is called this.
Suffrage
This movement worked toward given black people equal rights.
The Civil Right Movement
The systematic killing of an ethnic group.
Genocide
Once segregation became illegal in public schools, these people were met by angry mobs.
The 9 Black students that volunteered to attend
The 23rd amendment granted this group the right to vote.
Residents of Washington, DC
Poll taxes, literacy tests and grandfather clauses were all ways of doing this.
Prevent black citizens from voting.
Rosa Parks, MLK and the Freedom Riders are examples of this.
Civil Rights Activists
During this period of American history, the most efforts were being made to protect children.
The Industrial Revolution
A significant document in the history of human rights because it placed limitations on the power of the English King, requiring him to rule fairly to barons and freemen (but not to peasants).
Magna Carta
This amendment banned poll taxes.
24th Amendment
1924
The Declaration of Independence declared universal rights, but did not include these groups.
Slaves, women, Native Americans
The incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII used these.
Internment camps
During the Industrial Revolution, the most efforts were being made to protect children, addressing this problem.
Child Labor
Young men were being drafted to the Vietnam War but had no political power to vote, leading to popular slogans such as "Old enough to fight, old enough to vote!" This led to this Amendment.
26th Amendment
Literacy Test
This document is a standard and inspiration for countries to model their policies.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Segregation endured due to this trial that declared black and white people could be "separate but equal"
Plessy v. Ferguson
These laws marginalized black people and attempted to keep them separate from white people, while erasing the progress that they had made after the Civil War.
Jim Crow Laws
This amendment granted African American men the right to vote in 1870, but was not yet effective in guaranteeing the right to vote.
The 15th amendment
States were given the power to decide who had the right to vote, and many people believed land owners were the only ones responsible enough to make decisions. This made it possible for mostly only these people to vote.
White men that owned property
The first document to provide a list of universal rights.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
These laws marginalized black people and attempted to keep them separate from white people, while erasing the progress that they had made after the Civil War.
Jim Crow Laws