The History of Civil Rights in the Americas: Every Year

This video maps out the legal progress of major civil rights across the Americas in relation to abolishing slavery, minority rights, voting rights, and LGBT+ rights.
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Notes:
- Disputed borders are compromised. Most wars are not shown.
- Legal abolition of something does not mean the problem is eliminated entirely.
- Voting rights are not the same as free and fair elections.
- The indigenous boarding schools are indicated during times attendance was federally mandated. Some US states had schools that were gone by the time it was mandated.
- Near-universal suffrage means that there are still things like literary tests or poll taxes still in place even if no class is banned from voting.
- Gender change ID laws in the US may be possible for some IDs but not others depending on state.
Sources:
The data is based on official existing or historic laws that are too numerous to list here. Below are some extra sources that helped gather certain clusters of information:
- americansall.org/ (Jim Crow laws by US state)
- boardingschool... (Map of known US indigenous schools)
- web.archive.or... (Extra information on Canadian indigenous school policy)