Discover published sets by community

1948 - Provided a common standard of achievements for all peoples and nations and laid out fundamental human rights to be universally protected.

1964 - Outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, and ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation.

1943 - Repealed the Chinese Exclusion Act, allowing Chinese immigration and permitting some Chinese already residing in the US to become naturalized citizens.

1924 - Granted US citizenship to all Native Americans born in the United States.

1830 - Authorized the President to negotiate with southern Native American tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their ancestral homelands.

1863 - Issued by President Abraham Lincoln, it declared that all slaves in Confederate-held territory were free.

2009 - Officially known as the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, it expanded the 1969 United States federal hate crime law to include crimes motivated by a victim's actual or perceived gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability.

1973 - The first major legislative effort to provide Federal civil rights protections for individuals with disabilities, it prohibited discrimination on the basis of disability in programs conducted by Federal agencies.

1963 - United States labor law amending the Fair Labor Standards Act, aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on sex.

1968 - Intended to protect the buyer or renter of a dwelling from seller or landlord discrimination, it prohibits refusal to sell or rent a dwelling to any person because of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

2004 - An Act of the UK Parliament giving same-sex couples rights and responsibilities identical to civil marriage.

2011 - New York state law that allows marriage for same-sex couples, providing them the same rights, responsibilities, and benefits under state and city law as marriage between different-sex couples.

1995 - UK law making it unlawful to discriminate against people in respect of their disabilities in relation to employment, the provision of goods and services, education and transport.

1965 - Prohibited racial discrimination in voting, removing barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote.