Chapter 5: Civil Rights

American Democracy Now 2/e

Civil Rights

The Meaning of Equality Under the Law Inherent characteristics Strict scrutiny, heightened scrutiny, and

ordinary scrutiny Suspect classifications

Race Religion National origin Sex

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Slavery and Its Aftermath Slavery in the United States

Opposition to Slavery The Civil War Era

Reconstruction and the First Civil Rights Acts Backlash: Jim Crow Laws Governmental Acceptance of Discrimination

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Where Do You Stand?Do you think there will always be problems between African Americans and white Americans in the United States, or will there eventually be a solution?

a. There will always be problems.

b. There will be a solution.

Source: “Americans Mostly Upbeat About Current Race Relations,” www.gallup.com/poll/17314/Americans-Mostly-Upbeat-About-Current-Race-Relations.aspx.

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The Civil Rights Movement Fighting Back: Early Civil Rights Organizations The End of Separate But Equal Rosa Parks’s Civil Disobedience on a

Montgomery Bus Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Strategy of

Civil Disobedience Nonviolent civil disobedience The reaction to civil disobedience

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Where Do You Stand?With regard to Martin Luther King Jr. and the 1960s civil rights movement, how many goals of that movement have been achieved so far?

a. All

b. Most

c. Only some

d. Almost none

Source: “On King Holidays, a Split Response to Civil Rights Progress,” www.gallup.com/poll/103828/Civil-Rights-Progress-Seen-More.aspx.

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The Government’s Response to the Civil Rights Movement The Civil Rights Act of 1964 Other Civil Rights Legislation in the 1960s Impact of the Civil Rights Movement

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The Movement for Women’s Civil Rights First Wave of the Women’s Rights Movement

State-Level Rights The Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution

Second Wave of the Women’s Rights Movement Federal Legislation and Women’s Rights Women’s Rights and the Equal Protection Clause The Proposed Equal Rights Amendment

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Other Civil Rights Movements Native Americans’ Rights Citizens of Latin American Descent

Early Struggles of Mexican Americans The Chicano Movement Employment Discrimination and Other Civil Rights

Issues

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Other Civil Rights Movements Citizens of Asian Descent

Internment of Japanese Americans During WWII Contemporary Issues for Asian Americans

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Where Do You Stand?

Have you ever dated someone from a different racial or ethnic background than your own?

a. Yes

b. No

Source: “Most Americans Approve of Interracial Dating,” www.gallup.com/poll/19033/Most-Americans-Approve-Interracial-Dating.aspx.

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Other Civil Rights Movements Citizens with Disabilities Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered

Citizens (LGBT) The Gay Pride Movement Backlash Against the Movement for

LGBT Civil Rights

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Affirmative Action: Is It Constitutional? How Affirmative Action Works Opposition to Affirmative Action

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