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a state imposed tax on voters as a prerequisite for registration. These were rendered unconstitutional in national elections by the 24th Amendment, and in state elections by the supreme court in 1966
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| 117. Betty Freidan's "The Feminine Mystique" |
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| Nonfiction book published in 1963 considered to have sparked the beginning of second-wave feminism |
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| p. 186-87 First Supreme Court case to formally address affirmative action. Bakke was not admitted to UC Davis Med School and argued that his grades were just as good as various blacks and latinos accepted. Bakke won his case in 1978, but the Supreme Court did not rule affirmative action unconstitutional |
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| The idea that there should be laws made ignoring a persons "color" and only focusing on the act itself. |
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| The idea that there is an invisible "glass" ceiling" that prevents women from moving up in the workplace. |
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