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| Outlawed racial segregation in schools, public places, and employment. Passed under LBJ. |
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| Voting Rights Act of 1965 |
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| Made literacy tests illegal and made states with a history of discrimination submit plans to change their procedures to the federal government. |
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| Established principle of separate but equal |
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| Brown v. Board of Education |
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| Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson. |
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| Brown v. Board of Education II |
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| Kept decision and said that local areas need to implement the Court's decision "with all deliberate speed." |
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| Privileges of Immunities Clause, Due Process, and Equal Protection Clause. |
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| Grants voting rights regardless of race, color, previous condition of servitude to all people. |
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| Prevented interracial marriage. |
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| Regents of the U of C v. Bakke |
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| In this case the Supreme Court ruled that it is illegal to use racial quotas to reserve spaces for minority members in college if non-minority members do not have an opportunity to compete for those spaces. It did not, however, outlaw considering race in the college admissions process. |
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| Gratz v. Bollinger and Grutter v. Bollinger |
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| Upheld the University of Michigan's admissions practices which favoured minority members. |
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| United States v. Paradise |
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| Upheld the use of strict quotas as one of the only means to combat racism (in the police force they forced them to promote one black officer for every white officer promoted). |
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| State legislatures no longer have authority to make private sexual behaviour a crime |
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| Designed to define and protect the institution of marriage as being between a man and a woman |
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| Explicitly extended fundamental civil rights protections to gays by declaring the COlorado state constitution unconstitutional. |
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| ade it illegal to pay men and women different wage rates for equal work on jobs that require equal skill, effort, and responsibility and are performed under similar working conditions. |
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| was a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution which was intended to guarantee equal rights under the law for Americans regardless of sex. The ERA failed to gain ratification before its deadline and although it has been reintroduced in every Congress since 1982, public attention to it has greatly diminished. |
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| National Organization of Women |
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| first major campaign involved picketing of the equal employment opportunity commission for its refusal to ban sex-segregated employment advertisement. Largest American feminist organization. |
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| Said that voting legislation saying the limitation of suffrage to male citizens was not an infringement of the Minors rights under the 14th Amendment |
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| Bowe v. Colgate-Palmolive Company |
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| companies may not use job classification systems that discriminate on the basis of gender. Demands that individual weight requirements be tested by companies regardless of gender |
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| house committee on un-American activities was an investigative committee of the United States of America. Anti-communist. |
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| Known as the Alien Registration Act. United States federal statute that made it a criminal offense for anyone to talk about or organize the overthrow of the US Government (anti-communist) |
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| Idaho’s ratification of the ERA was rescinded, as way any legislature’s timely rescission of a constitutional amendment, and congress’s attempted extension of time for the ratifications was null and void |
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| American Indian Religious Freedom Act |
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| U.S. federal law and joint resolution of Congress that pledged to protect and preserve the traditional religious rights of Indians. Inadequately enforced and additional reforms still needed (?). |
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| Indian Reorganization Act |
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| During New Deal, federal legislation which secured certain rights to Indians. These include a reversal of the Dawes act’s of privatization of Indian. Restored to Indians the management of their assets and included provisions intended to create a sound economic foundation for the inhabitants of reservations. |
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| Said that to violate the Smith act you must plan the overthrow of the government, not mearly believe in it. Yates’ rights of free speech were returned (he had made statemtns about hurting the government) |
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| Americans with Disabilities Act |
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| Requires public facilities to have wheelchair ramps. |
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