Civil Rights Movement - Advancement Through Legislation (eBook)

e-artnow presents to you a unique legal civil right collection comprised of the most important U.S. Civil Rights Acts and Supreme Court decisions considering racial discrimination. Table of Contents: Emancipation Proclamation & Gettysburg Address (1863) Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (1865) Civil Rights Act of 1866 Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (1868) Reconstruction Acts (1867-1868) Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (1870) Enforcement Act of 1870 The First Enforcement Act of 1871 (to enforce the rights of citizens of the United States to vote in the several States of this Union) The Second Enforcement Act of 1871 (Ku Klux Klan Act) Civil Rights Act of 1875 Executive Order 9981 (1948) Voting Rights Law of 1965 Executive Order 11246 (1965) Fair Housing Act (1968) United States Code Title 18 Chapter 13 (1968, 1976, 1988, 1994, 2009) The Community Reinvestment Act (1977) Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act (2007) Case Law: Strauder v. West Virginia (1880) Buchanan v. Warley (1917) Shelley v. Kraemer (1948) Sweatt v. Painter (1950) Brown v. Board of Education (1954) Boynton v. Virginia (1960) Heart of Atlanta Motel Inc. v. United States (1964) Loving v. Virginia (1967) Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co. (1968) Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978) Batson v. Kentucky (1986)