4. CIVIL LIBERTIES
Restrict government action
to protect individual rights
CIVIL RIGHTS
Require government action
to secure individual rights
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6. 1) Public Discrimination
2) Private Discrimination
3) Equality and Anti-Discrimination
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8. Equality has come through amendments
Example: Nineteenth Amendment (1920)
What is equality?
How do we know when we’ve achieved it?
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How should the government balance the
number of free and slave states in the Union?
13. DRED SCOTT DRED SCOTT
Scott was a slave and could
not sue for his freedom
Ruled Missouri
Compromise
unconstitutional
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?
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23. The NAACP still
exists today and
argues for furthering
African-American
rights in our society.
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.
33. This amendment to the U.S. Constitution gave women the right to vote.
34. 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
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37. Political Compromise
Military would not “ask”
anyone about their
sexual orientation
Homosexual members
would not “tell” them.
Struck down in 2011
41. Policies taking race, religion, gender, etc. into account
in order to benefit a group in employment, education, etc.
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43. 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