American Government : Civil Rights and Civil Liberties

Roberts v. City of Boston (1850)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Address to the New York Legislature (1854)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Speech for the Anniversary of the American Anti-Slavery Society (1860)
Emancipation Proclamation (1862)
Ulysses S. Grant: Special Message to Congress Announcing Ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment (1870)
Susan B. Anthony: Letters concerning Casting a Vote in the 1872 Federal Election (ca. 1872)
Susan B. Anthony: "Is It a Crime for a Citizen of the United States to Vote?" (1873)
Ulysses S. Grant: Special Message to the Senate on Unrest in Louisiana (1875)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: "Solitude of Self" (1892)
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Susan B. Anthony: "The Status of Woman, Past, Present, and Future" (1897)
Theodore Roosevelt: Brownsville Legacy Special Message to the Senate (1906)
Monroe Trotter's Protest to Woodrow Wilson (1914)
Guinn v. United States (1915)
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: Opinion in Schenck v. United States (1919)
Charles Hamilton Houston: Petition in Missouri ex rel Gaines v. Canada (1938)
Executive Order 8802: Banning Discrimination in Government and Defense Industries (1941)
Robert H. Jackson: Opinion in West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943)
Harry S. Truman: Address to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (1947)
Charles Hamilton Houston: Petition in Hurd v. Hodge (1948)
Executive Order 9981: Desegregation of the Armed Forces (1948)
Sweatt v. Painter (1950)
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Executive Order 10730: Little Rock Desegregation (1957)
Felix Frankfurter: Opinion in Cooper v. Aaron (1958)
Equal Pay Act (1963)
John F. Kennedy: Civil Rights Address (1963)
Earl Warren: Opinion in Reynolds v. Sims (1964)
Civil Rights Act of 1964 (1964)
Hugo Black: Opinion in Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)
Voting Rights Act of 1965 (1965)
Executive Order 11246: Equal Employment Opportunity (1965)
Lyndon Baines Johnson: Speech to Congress on Civil Rights (1965)
Bond v. Floyd (1966)
South Carolina v. Katzenbach (1966)
Robert F. Kennedy: Address at the University of California, Berkeley (1966)
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
Warren E. Burger: Opinion in Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (1971)
Thurgood Marshall: Opinion in Grayned v. City of Rockford (1972)
Roe v. Wade (1973)
FBI Report on Elijah Muhammad (1973)
Warren E. Burger: Opinion in Milliken v. Bradley (1974)
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978)
Harry Blackmun: Opinion in Bowers v. Hardwick (1986)
Sandra Day O'Connor: Opinion in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services (1989)
Webster v. Reproductive Health Services (1989)
Thurgood Marshall: Opinion in Florida v. Bostick (1991)
Bill Clinton: Remarks Announcing the New Policy on Gays and Lesbians in the Military (1993)
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Opinion in United States v. Virginia (1996)
Clarence Thomas's Concurrence/Dissent in Grutter v. Bollinger (2003)
Lawrence v. Texas (2003)
Sandra Day O'Connor: Opinion in Grutter v. Bollinger (2003)
U.S. Senate Resolution Apologizing for the Enslavement and Racial Segregation of African Americans (2009)

Booker T. Washington: Letter to William Howard Taft (1908)
Walter Reuther: Address before the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (1957)
Robert F. Kennedy: Remarks on the Death of Martin Luther King (1968)
Shirley Chisholm: Speech in Favor of the Equal Rights Amendment (1970)
Equal Rights Amendment (1972)
Thurgood Marshall: Equality Speech (1978)