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:
https://americansall.org/ (Jim Crow laws by US state)
https://boardingschoolhealing.org/list/ (Map of known US indigenous schools)
https://web.archive.org/web/200306241... (Extra information on Canadian indigenous school policy)