1. AP American Government

2. Role of Federal Government and the Spending Power The continued fight for Equality Birth of Civil Rights Movement WWII and the Great Migration (A. William Randolph) Government sponsored discrimination The NAACP and Thurgood Marshall Sweat v. Painter (1950) McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents (1950) Brown v. Board of Education (1954) Brown II (1955)

3. The Civil Rights Movement to end Jim Crow The Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Martin Luther King Federal Oversight of Elections 15 th Amendment Civil Rights Act of 1957 Voting Rights Act of 1965 24 th Amendment (1964) Private Business Discrimination and the new interpretation of “Commerce” Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) Civil Rights Act of 1964 Katzenbach v. McClung (1964) Heart of Atlanta v. United States (1964)

4. Protection of Individual Civil Liberties Religion, Rights of the Accused (Miranda), Death Penalty, Privacy (medical), self-defense, etc. Impact of the Holocaust on American Jurisprudence Attempt to fix economic inequalities in America – LBJ’s War on Poverty in The Great Society (growth of Social Security, Medicaid, education funding, affirmative action)