Civil Rights
- 4. CIVIL LIBERTIES Restrict government action to protect individual rights CIVIL RIGHTS Require government action to secure individual rights
- 6. 1) Public Discrimination 2) Private Discrimination 3) Equality and Anti-Discrimination
- 8. Equality has come through amendments Example: Nineteenth Amendment (1920) What is equality? How do we know when we’ve achieved it?
- 12. Rights of Blacks Before the Civil War: Issue of SlaveryRights of Blacks Before the Civil War: Issue of SlaveryRights of Blacks Before the Civil War: Issue of SlaveryRights of Blacks Before the Civil War: Issue of SlaveryRights of Blacks Before the Civil War: Issue of Slavery How should the government balance the number of free and slave states in the Union?
- 13. DRED SCOTT DRED SCOTTV. SANDFORD Scott was a slave and could not sue for his freedom Ruled Missouri Compromise unconstitutional
- 16. This amendment guarantees citizenship in the U.S. regardless of race.
- 17. Julian Bond and Martin Luther King, Jr. This amendment gave African-Americans the right to vote in the United States.
- 18. Whites used several techniques to disallow Blacks from voting.
- 19. INSTRUCTIONS: You are an eligible voter (by law) in Louisiana, but you are being required to take a literacy test. Complete this test as best you can in the time allotted. After five minutes, form a small group and keep working.
- 20. Laws establishing separation ofWhites and Blacks Included: Education (schools) Entertainment (pool) Housing, Libraries, andTransportation
- 21. Homer Plessy As long as facilities forWhites and Blacks were “equal,” racial separation could exist. Were they really equal?
- 23. The NAACP still exists today and argues for furthering African-American rights in our society.
- 24. This case rejected “separate but equal” in public education, ordering the integration of public schools.
- 26. When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus, it became a major event in the Civil Rights movement.
- 27. DE JURE Discrimination by Law Treat people differently due to race Faced by Blacks in South Eventually was defeated through integration, etc. DE FACTO Discrimination in Fact Occurred in North Much harder to eliminate because segregation more woven in society
- 28. This act prohibited discrimination on race in public accommodations and in employment practices.
- 29. TheVRA eliminated past discriminatory practices, like literacy tests and grandfather clauses.
- 32. This amendment to the U.S. Constitution gave women the right to vote.
- 33. PHYLLIS SCHLAFLYEQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT Passed by Congress but never ratified by states Would have banned discrimination on basis of gender Why did the ERA fail? Theory vs. Practice TraditionalValues Unnecessary
- 36. Political Compromise Military would not “ask” anyone about their sexual orientation Homosexual members would not “tell” them. Struck down in 2011
- 37. This law defined marriage between one man and one woman.
- 40. Policies taking race, religion, gender, etc. into account in order to benefit a group in employment, education, etc.
- 42. Employers must make accommodations for employees with limitations. Public places (restaurants, hotels, movie theaters, etc.) must follow this act. Campus centers for students with disabilities