The Civil Rights Society
Mission Statement
The Civil Rights Museum Society will focus its attention on the 13th, 14th, 15th, 19th, 23rd, 26th amendments of the Constitution and to provide information to those who have been denied of their human, civil, equal rights.
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13th AmendmentOfficially outlaws slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
14th AmendmentGrants citizenship to every born person in the United Sates and subject to its jurisdiction and protects Civil and Politicle Rights.
15th AmendmentProhibits each goverment in the United States from denying a citizen the right vote based on that citizens race/color or previous condition of servitude.
19th AmendmentThis amendment was created so that women would have the right to vote, sit on jury, an drun for political office.
23rd AmendmentGives residents of Washington D.C the right to vote for representatives in the Ellectorial College.
26th AmendmentBarred the states or federal goverment from settin g a voting age higher than eighteen.
What were the Jim Crow LawsMandates racial segregation in all public facilities in all Southern states of the former Southern Confederacy, "seperate but equal."
Dyer Anti-Lynching BillThe Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill as it appeared in 1922 stated: "To assure to persons within the jurisdiction of every State the equal protection of the laws, and to punish the crime of lynching.... Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the phrase 'mob or riotous assemblage,' when used in this act, shall mean an assemblage composed of three or more persons acting in concert for the purpose of depriving any person of his life without authority of law as a punishment for or to prevent the commission of some actual or supposed public offense."
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