1. Civil Rights

2. Civil Rights vs. Civil Liberties
Civil Liberties = Personal Rights
Civil Rights = Group Rights
Age, Sex, Race, Color, National Origin, and Gender

3. Struggle for Equal Rights
Plessey v. Ferguson
Separate but Equal Doctrine
Used to Justify Segregation
Overturned by Brown vs. Board of Education
Separate is Not Equal

4. Civil Rights Act of 1964 Banned Discrimination in Public Areas,
Restaurants, Movies, Parks….

5. Affirmative Action What do you know about Affirmative Action?
Definition-
concrete steps that are taken not only to eliminate discrimination—whether in employment, education, or contracting—but also to attempt to redress the efforts of past discrimination

6. Further Defining Affirmative Action
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
Strict Quota system is Unconstitutional
100 Caucasian, 60 African Americans,
Grutter vs. Bollinger
Gratz vs. Bollinger
Admissions policy which gave preference to minorities was Constitutional
Not a deciding factor
Considered like special talents, Extra Curricular activities, and hometown

7. Affirmative Action
Reasons For:
Reasons Against: