1. Sam Berkowitz Module 15, Lesson 6
Civil Rights for All
Sam Berkowitz
Module 15, Lesson 6

2. LGBT RIGHTS
Aside from race rights throughout the 20th century, many groups among the LGBT community fought for their rights, as they were banned from the federal government and the military, as they were also targets of common police brutality. Finally, in 1969, many gathered at the Stonewall Inn in NYC to protest for their rights. In the 1980s and 1990s, the community became accepted a bit more mainstream, and activism became very common for this. In 1994, a rule was implemented that officials and those in the military would not ask of ones orientation, called the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy to help spread the cause. Marriage also became a major issue throughout the country, as certain states wouldn’t allow it. Finally, in the Summer of 2015, LGBT marriage became legal in all 50 states nationwide.

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Here is shown, much of the army implementing the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Policy”

4. Rights for Those with Disabilities
Among many groups of Civil Rights, Americans with Disabilities became another group fighting for their rights. The fought for those with physical mental, and health challenges and impairments. They dealt with the prejudice issues against them throughout the country. They wanted to achieve the right for those with these problems to be able to maintain steady jobs. As well, these groups thought education for those with disabilities needed to be fixed, so an Education for All Handicapped Children Act was implemented in 1975, allowing those with challenges to attend public schools. In 1990, George H. W. Bush signed an act allowing for all those with disabilities to be able to use all public facilities, accommodations, etc. Even now, there is still a struggle to maintain all equal rights for those with disabilities, but the progress is continually going upward.

5. Students’ Civil Rights
Today with Social Media running our society, students have started questioning their civil rights. Reaching back several decades, this problem existed in the 60s, in a case called Engle V. Vitale, where students questioned the need for school prayer. Again, in 1969, several students were expelled for their protests against the Vietnam War, and in the case Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, this problem was solved, Even until 1988, these issues arised as schools limited student speech. Student personal privacy has also been an issue, as schools have monitored many of students’ private belongings, such as their backpacks, or social media accounts and applications.

6. The Rights of New Immigrants
Heating throughout the years, the rights for new immigrants has sparked conversation. In 1980, the US gov’t passed the Refuge Act, making foreign issues harder to occur in the US, and this act has increased even to now among the US/Mexico border. Other laws in 1996 limited the rights for immigrants. The government has been trying to make immigrations rights less limited to now.

7. Here is shown, immigrants protesting for their rights