Civil Rights

Protected by the government

• Civil Rights

• Civil Liberties

Protected from the government

• Civil Rights

• Civil Liberties

Legal constitutional protections against the government, limitations on government power, guaranteed by the Bill of Rights

• Civil Rights

• Civil Liberties

Require government action to ensure equal protection and protect against discrimination; 14th Amendment

• Civil Rights

• Civil Liberties

Granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States—including former slaves—and guaranteed all citizens “equal protection of the laws.”

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

Granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

Prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin and forbade discrimination on the basis of sex, as well as, race in hiring, promoting, and firing.

• Civil Rights Act of 1957

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Civil Rights Act of 1968

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

The act banned the use of literacy tests and provided for federal oversight of voter registration in areas where less than 50 percent of the non-white population had not registered to vote.

• Civil Rights Act of 1957

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Civil Rights Act of 1968

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

A 1954 Supreme Court decision that held that Mexican Americans and all other nationality groups in the United States have equal protection under the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

• Gideon v. Wainwright

• Brown v. Board

• Mendez v. Westminster

• Hernandez v. Texas

1954 Supreme Court decision that found that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are a violation of the Equal Protection clause of the U.S. Constitution and unconstitutional.

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Brown v. Board

• Mendez v. Westminster

• Dred Scott v. Sandford