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Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
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Law that requires employers and public facilities to make "reasonable accommodations" for people with disabilities and prohibits discrimination of these individuals in employment
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
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Law that made racial discrimination against any group in hotels, motels, and restaurants illegal and forbade many forms of job discrimination
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Equal Rights Amendment
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Amendment introduced and passed by Congress in 1972 that stated " equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the US or by any state on account of sex" it failed.
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Title IX
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Article of the Civil Rights Act that forbade gender discrimination in federally subsidized educational programs.
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Voting Rights Act of 1965
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Law designed to end formal and informal barriers to Afro-American suffrage.
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Adarand Construction v. Pena 1995
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Supreme Court decision holding that federal programs that classify people by race, even for an ostensibly benign purpose such as expanding opportunities for minorities, should be presumed to be unconstitutional.
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Brown v. Board of Education 1954
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School segregation in was inherently unconstitutional because it violated the 14th Amendment's guarantee of equal protection. Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson
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Craig v. Boren 1976
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Supreme Court case in which the court established a medium scrutiny for gender discrimination.
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Dred Scott v. Sandford 1957
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Dred Scott sued for his freedom and the court established that slaves were not citizens therefore they had no rights
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