Shea chapter 5

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5Civil Rights

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The Idea of Equality

Political Equality

Equality of Condition

Equality of Opportunity

Political Equality

Declaration of Independence “All men are created equal.” Founders were slave owners

White males Property owners

Gays and lesbians

Equality of Condition versus Equality of Opportunity Economic status

Opportunity means eliminating discriminatory barriers to education, employment, housing

Equal access to voting

Categorical discrimination Exclusion from education, housing, work

TABLE 5.1: Rights, Pathway and Results in Advancing Equality of Opportunity

5.1 Not allowing someone access to a good or service based on their race or gender is an example of:

a. Discriminatory barriers

b. Categorical discrimination

c. Equality of condition

d. Equality of opportunity

5.15.1 Not allowing someone access to a good or service based on their race or gender is an example of:

a. Discriminatory barriers

b. Categorical discrimination

c. Equality of condition

d. Equality of opportunity

Equal Protection of the Law

The Fourteenth Amendment and Reconstruction

The Rise and Persistence of Racial Oppression

Family working in Georgia cotton field 5.2

TABLE 5.2: Educational Attainment and Income by Race, 2010

The Fourteenth Amendment and Reconstruction Amendments passed during

Reconstruction Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery Fourteenth Amendment granted rights of citizenship to

freed slaves Fifteenth Amendment gave all men right to vote

regardless of race

Equal protection clause of Fourteenth Amendment

Susan B. Anthony 5.2

The Rise and Persistence of Racial Oppression

Jim Crow laws Mandated racial segregation

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

Segregation De jure segregation De facto segregation

“Separate but equal” theatre entrance

White university students protesting integration

5.2 What did the Supreme Court in Plessy v. Ferguson refuse to declare unconstitutional?a. Ku Klux Klan

b. Violence against African Americans

c. Racial segregation

d. Poll taxes and other voting obstacles

5.25.2 What did the Supreme Court in Plessy v. Ferguson refuse to declare unconstitutional?a. Ku Klux Klan

b. Violence against African Americans

c. Racial segregation

d. Poll taxes and other voting obstacles

Litigation Strategies

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and Thurgood Marshall

Brown v. Board of Education and Earl Warren

a. The ruling only applied to Topeka.

b. School districts were allowed to design their own plans, including timeframe.

c. The federal Department of Education was ill equipped to handle the change.

d. The president refused to enforce the ruling.

5.35.3 Brown v. Board of Education ended segregation, but it still took 20 years to fully integrate public schools because:

a. The ruling only applied to Topeka.

b. School districts were allowed to design their own plans, including timeframe.

c. The federal Department of Education was ill equipped to handle the change.

d. The president refused to enforce the ruling.

5.3 Brown v. Board of Education ended segregation, but it still took 20 years to fully integrate public schools because:

Clarifying the Coverage of the Equal Protection Clause

Three Tests for the Equal Protection Clause Strict scrutiny Intermediate scrutiny Rational basis test

Affirmative Action

TABLE 5.4: Three Tests for the Equal Protection Clause

5.4 What test must the Court apply when considering whether a case involves racial discrimination? a. Rational basis test

b. Intermediate scrutiny

c. Strict scrutiny

d. All of the above

5.45.4 What test must the Court apply when considering whether a case involves racial discrimination? a. Rational basis test

b. Intermediate scrutiny

c. Strict scrutiny

d. All of the above

Video: In Context

Grassroots Mobilization and Civil Rights

African Americans and Civil Rights

Civil Rights Legislation

African Americans and Civil Rights

Emmett Till

Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott

Martin Luther King Jr.

Little Rock Nine

Participants in the Montgomery bus boycott

U.S Army troops escorting member of the Little Rock Nine

Martin Luther King Jr. 5.5

Murdered civil rights workers 5.5

Civil Rights Act of 1964 Forbids discrimination based on race, color,

religion, or national origin

FIGURE 5.1: Equal opportunity? 5.5

Voting Rights Act of 1965 Barred literacy tests

Increased voter registration

“Preclearance” provision

TABLE 5.5: Percentage of eligible citizens registered to vote

U.S. Commission on Civil Rights

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

5.5 Which of the following ended literacy tests for African Americans?a. U.S. Commission on Civil Rights

b. Voting Rights Act of 1965

c. U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

d. Civil Rights Act of 1964

5.55.5 Which of the following ended literacy tests for African Americans?a. U.S. Commission on Civil Rights

b. Voting Rights Act of 1965

c. U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

d. Civil Rights Act of 1964

Other Historic Struggles for Civil Rights

Women and Civil Rights

Latinos and Civil Rights

Native Americans and Civil Rights

Women and Civil Rights

Grassroots mobilization for universal suffrage Led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Protest marches, hunger strikes, speeches,

demonstrations

Nineteenth Amendment passed after 8 decades

Women marching for suffrage in 1913 5.6

FIGURE 5.2: Women and the right to vote

Latinos and Civil Rights

Cesar Chavez and United Farm Workers Improved working conditions for migrant workers

Arizona v. United States (2012) Struck down Arizona law targeted at Latinos

DREAM ACT

FIGURE 5.3: Hispanic voting power, 2010

Native Americans and Civil Rights

Used courts, not mobilization, to gain rights Voting rights Right to practice religion Historic land rights

Cobell v. Kempthorne (2008)

5.6 What is universal suffrage?

a. The right to be free from suffering based on discrimination

b. The right of all adult citizens to vote

c. The right to be treated universally as a citizen

d. The right of women to vote

5.65.6 What is universal suffrage?

a. The right to be free from suffering based on discrimination

b. The right of all adult citizens to vote

c. The right to be treated universally as a citizen

d. The right of women to vote

Contemporary Civil Rights Issues

Complexity of Issues

Emerging Groups

Video: Thinking Like a Political Scientist

Complexity of Issues

Equality of opportunity Affirmative action — reverse discrimination?

Majority-minority districts

Emerging Groups

People with disabilities Americans with Disabilities Act

Disabled protestors 5.7

Emerging Groups

Gays and lesbians Violent hate crimes a federal offense Military service Same-sex marriage

Columbia University students 5.7

Video: In the Real World

Explore Civil Rights: Are All Forms of Discrimination the Same?

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5.75.7 Which groups used the mobilization to end discrimination they encountered?a. women

b. Latinos

c. Native Americans

d. Migrant workers

5.7 Which groups used the courts to end discrimination they encountered?

a. women

b. Latinos

c. Native Americans

d. Migrant workers

How did various groups use grassroots mobilization to gain their rights as citizens? What made such mobilization so effective?

Discussion Question 5

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