Documents

13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Abolition of Slavery (1865)

http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=40

14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Civil Rights (1868)

http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=43

15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Voting Rights (1870)

http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=44

Civil Rights Act (1957)

http://www.law.umaryland.edu/marshall/usccr/documents/civriac.pdf

Civil Rights Act (1964)

http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=97

Voting Rights Act (1965)

http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=100