What are 3 examples of legislation passed/supreme court decisions that insured equality for African Americans?

Not only African Americans but also other minority groups who experienced discrimination.What are 3 examples of legislation passed/supreme court decisions that insured equality for African Americans?Certainly the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments, the so-called Reconstruction Amendments to the Constitution that were passed in the post-Civil War Era were intended to convey the rights of citizenship to the newly freed slaves, and to some extent they did so in practice. However, in the years following the Civil War the Supreme Court tended to read those Amendments fairly narrowly as they applied to civil rights, though perhaps a little curiously to some observers, the Court at the same time began to construe the so-called Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment quite broadly, particularly as it applied to property interests.



The Court's rulings in the Brown v. Board cases decided in the early 1950s also served to forward the cause of African American Civil Rights, essentially by striking down the Court's earlier ruling in Plessy that had established a separate but equal principle for segregating schools. Brown, at least on paper, seemed the harbinger of an end to segregation in schools. However, in practice, the Court had no real enforcement power, and the decision was substantially ignored for another decade until the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act that put some teeth in the Court's ruling and put the resources at the disposal of the Executive and Legislative Branches behind enforcement.What are 3 examples of legislation passed/supreme court decisions that insured equality for African Americans?13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the Constitution. Brown v. Board of Education. Civil Rights Act. Et cetera.