American Democracy Now 2/e Chapter 5: Civil Rights American Democracy Now 2/e

©2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 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 ©2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

©2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Civil Rights 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 ©2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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©2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Civil Rights 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. ©2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

©2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Civil Rights 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 ©2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

©2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Civil Rights 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. ©2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

©2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Civil Rights 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 ©2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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©2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Civil Rights 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 ©2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

©2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Civil Rights 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 ©2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

©2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Civil Rights Other Civil Rights Movements Citizens of Asian Descent Internment of Japanese Americans During WWII Contemporary Issues for Asian Americans (continued) ©2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

©2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Civil Rights 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. ©2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

©2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Civil Rights 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 (continued) ©2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

©2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Civil Rights Affirmative Action: Is It Constitutional? How Affirmative Action Works Opposition to Affirmative Action ©2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.