African American Acts and Court Cases 0.0 / 5 ? HistoryAmerica - 19th and 20th centuryA2/A-levelOCR Created by: SarahSib377Created on: 17-03-18 18:35 Emancipation Proclamation 1863 - slaves free after north defeats south 1 of 31 13th Amendment 1865 - end slavery 2 of 31 Reconstruction Act 1867 - martial law to enforce black rights 3 of 31 14th Amendment 1868 – citizens 4 of 31 15th Amendment 1870 – vote 5 of 31 Ku Klux Act 1871 - almost ended the KKK 6 of 31 Amnesty Act 1872 - restored political rights of most former confederates 7 of 31 Slaughterhouse Cases 1873 - 14th A only for national citizenship 8 of 31 Civil Rights Act 1875 - tried to end segregation, blacks/whites in same public areas 9 of 31 US v Cruikshank 1875 - 14th A only protected AA from state discrimination, not individuals 10 of 31 US v Reece 1876 - wouldn’t put officials from Kentucky on trial for refusing to let AA vote 11 of 31 Civil Rights Cases 1883 - declared 1875 CR Act unconstitutional 12 of 31 Jim Crow 1887+ 13 of 31 Plessy v Ferguson 1896 - legalised segregation 'separate but equal' 14 of 31 Cummings v Board of Education 1899 - 'separate but equal' extended to schools 15 of 31 US v Guinn 1915 - grandfather clause declared unconstitutional in Oklahoma 16 of 31 Buchanan v Warley 1917 - segregationist housing regulations declared unconstitutional 17 of 31 Smith v Allwright 1944 - AA vote in primary elections as well as secondary 18 of 31 Morgan v Virginia 1946 - enforcing segregation on interstate buses was illegal 19 of 31 Sweatt v Painter 1950 - desegregation at uni level 20 of 31 Brown v Board of Education 1954 - segregation in schools unconstitutional, ‘separate but equal’ not the reality 21 of 31 Brown II 1955 - schools must desegregate with 'all deliberate speed' 22 of 31 Browder v Gayle 1956 - segregation on buses illegal 23 of 31 Boynton v Virginia 1960 - segregation on interstate travel illegal 24 of 31 Civil Rights Act 1964 - outlaws segregation and discrimination based on race, colour, religion, sex or national identity 25 of 31 Voting Rights Act 1965 - banned voting qualifications 26 of 31 Alexander v Holmes County 1969 - sped up school integration 27 of 31 Swann v Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education 1971 - busing ordered across US to end de facto segregation 28 of 31 Griggs v Duke Power Company 1971 - upheld right to insist on affirmative action and stop implicit discrimination in employment 29 of 31 Equal Opportunities Act 1972 - sue in court based on employment discrimination 30 of 31 Freeman v Pitts 1992 - slowed down school desegregation 31 of 31
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