1. Civil Rights:

2. Civil Rights vs. Civil Liberties 14th Amendment to U.S. Constitution
Defining Civil Rights
Civil Rights vs. Civil Liberties
Guarantee vs. Protection
14th Amendment to U.S. Constitution
Equal Protection Clause
Due Process

3. Identifying Discrimination
Is it ever bad for the government to discriminate?
Rational Basis Test
Rationally related to a legitimate government interest
Cannot be arbitrary, deliberate, or capricious
Other criteria not gender, race, national origin, ethnicity or creed

4. Identifying discrimination
Intermediate Scrutiny
Substantially related to important government objective
No greater than necessary to achieve
Gender classification
Craig vs. Boren

5. Identifying Discrimination
Strict Scrutiny
Compelling State Interest
Least Restrictive Option
Toughest standard to meet
Affirmative Action

6. African American Experience
Slavery and the Civil War
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
Black Codes
Reconstruction
13th, 14th, 15th Amendments

7. African American Experience
Jim Crow Laws
Disenfranchisement
Literacy and Understanding Test
White Primaries
Poll Taxes
Grandfather Clause
Plessy vs. Ferguson

8. Civil Rights in the Courts
NAACP
Thurgood Marshall
Test Cases
McLaurin vs. Oklahoma
Sweatt vs. Painter
Brown vs. Board of Education

9. Civil Rights in the Courts
Brown vs. Board of Education
Unanimous verdict
Ended De Jure Segregation
De Facto Discrimination
White Flight
Initial Language Vague
Loving vs. Virginia

10. Legislating Civil Rights
24th Amendment
Martin Luther King Jr.
Direction Action
Civil Disobedience
Rosa Parks
From Selma to Montgomery

11. Legislating Civil Rights
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Prohibited Private Discrimination
Created the EEOC
Justification?
Commerce Clause and not 14th amendment
Addendums over time

12. Legislating Civil Rights
Voter Rights Act of 1965
Banned Literacy and Understanding Test
Allowed for federal government to monitor elections
Rapid increase of black voter registration
Pre-Clearance
Shelby County vs. Holder

13. Civil Rights and Women Early View Coverture Restricted voting rights
Active in Abolitionists and Temperance movements
Elizabeth Stanton denied admittance to meeting
Seneca Fall Convention

14. Equal Rights Amendment
Civil Rights and Women
Women’s Suffrage
19th Amendment
Feminist Movement
Betty Friedan
Title IX
Equal Rights Amendment

15. ERA fell a few states shy of ratification
Civil Rights and Women
ERA fell a few states shy of ratification
Descriptively underrepresented in government and society
Comparable worth
Glass Ceiling
Abortion issue
Roe vs. Wade
Whole Woman’s Health vs. Hellerstadt

16. Civil Rights and Women

17. Civil Rights and Native Americans/islanders
Trail of Tears
Dawes Severalty Act and Curtis Act
Many Denied Citizenship until 1940
American Indian Movement
Wounded Knee
Alaskan and Hawaiian natives
Similar issues of Assimilation and land

18. Civil Rights and Native Americans/Islanders

19. Civil Rights and Hispanics/Latino
A history of deportations
1930 and great depression
Operation “Wetback”
LULAC
Migrant farm workers strike
Caesar Chavez

20. Civil Rights and Asian Americans
History of block citizenship and laws preventing land acquisition
Japanese Internment
Korematsu vs. US
Lau vs. Nichols
Not very active today

21. Civil Rights and Gay Americans
Stonewall Inn
Anti-Sodomy Laws
Bowers vs. Hardwick
Lawrence vs. Texas
Defense of Marriage Act
“Don’t ask Don’t Tell”
Obergefell vs. Hodges

22. Civil Rights and Disabilities
Forced Sterilization
Buck vs. Bell
Ended in the 1970’s
Rehabilitation Act and Education for Handicapped Children Act
Americans with Disability Act

23. Civil Rights and Disabilities