early civil rights amendments and court cases. reconstruction era 13 th amendment: ended slavery 14...
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Early Civil Rights Amendments and Court
Cases
Reconstruction Era• 13th Amendment: Ended slavery• 14th Amendment: Extended citizenship
to African-Americans, as well as due process and equal protection to all citizens.• 15th Amendment: Extended the right
to vote to African-Americans
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)• Supreme Court case that legalized
segregation in facilities that were “separate but equal.”• Segregation legalized (Jim Crow Laws)• De Jure Segregation—segregation by
law (South)• De Facto Segregation—segregation by
customs and habits
Brown v. Board (1954)• Supreme Court case that overturned
“separate but equal” doctrine and desegregated public schools.