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Part of 14th amendment emphasizing that the laws must provide “equivalent” protection to all people

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Equal protection of the law

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Policies designed to protect people against arbitrary or discriminatory treatment by government officials or individuals

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Civil rights

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Slaves were not citizens
Supreme Court decision ruling that a slave that had escaped to a free state had no rights as a citizen and that congress has no authority to ban slavery in the territories

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Scott v sandford

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SEPARATE BUT EQUAL

Justification for segregation

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Plessy v ferguson

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Separate is inherently unequal
Supreme Court ruling that segregated schools was unconstitutional and violated 14th amendment rights - ended segregation in US

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Brown vs board of education

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By law segregation

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De Jure

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By facts segregation

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De facto

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Law making segregation in hotels, motels and restaurants illegal and forbidding many forms of job discrimination

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Civil rights act of 1964

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Right to vote

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Suffrage

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Charging people to vote- illegal

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Poll taxes

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Elections where African Americans were excluded and left no voice for African Americans in government

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White primary

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Law designed to help end formal and informal barriers to African American suffrage

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Voting Rights act of 1965

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Supreme Court decision that extended protection against discrimination of Hispanics

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Hernandez vs Texas

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Discrimination of Japanese after Pearl Harbor
Supreme Court decision that upheld as constitutional the internment of 100,000 Americans of Japanese decent in encampments during WWll

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Korematsu vs US

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Failed proposed amendment for equal rights for all sexes

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Equal rights amendment

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Gender bias (divorce example)
Upheld claim of gender discrimination
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Reed vs reed

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Supreme Court established intermediate scrutiny standard for determining gender discrimination

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Craig vs boren

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Requires employees and public facilities to make reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities and prohibits discrimination of these people in employment

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Americans with disabilities act of 1990

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Setting aside spots for women/minorities for opportunities or special attention for disadvantaged groups

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Affirmative action

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Supreme Court Decision that let universities to weigh race or ethnic background as one element in admissions but could not set aside places for members of particular racial groups

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Regents of the university of Cali vs. Bakke

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Reverse racism/sexism
Supreme Court Decision holding that federal programs that classify people by race even to expand opportunities is unconstitutional

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Adarand constructors vs Pena

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Segregation or separation of racial groups

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Jim Crow laws

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What caused jim crow laws to be developed

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Federal groups were out after reconstruction ended

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Inherently suspect

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Court presumptions about classifications based on race

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Race and ethnicity - inherently suspect
Gender- intermediate scrutiny
Age, wealth etc. -reasonableness

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Court definitions of levels of scrutiny

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Accomplishments of the civil rights act of 1964

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Reinforced 14th amendment

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Accomplishments of the voting act of 1965

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ReEnforced 15th amendment

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Equal opportunities for women in education, government and sports

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Title IX of educational amendment of 1972

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Idea that public facilities need to provide handicap assessable environment

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Americans with disabilities act

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Rosa parks

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Started civil rights movement by not sitting at the back of the bus

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Hostile working environment

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Sexual harassment definition

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Right to vote

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Suffrage

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Vote like husbands/men

19th amendment

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Women voting

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Yes if inability to do job based on age reasonableness

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Constitutionality of mandatory retirement

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Charging people to vote

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Poll tax

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Persons heritage affecting rights

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Grandfather clause

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Cannot give African Americans choice by eliminating their say in government

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White primaries

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Creating artificial voting districts

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Gerrymandering

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Abolished slavery in United States

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13th amendment

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Ensures all citizens of all states had not only rights on the federal level, but on the state level too…removed 3/5 counting of slaves in the census and ensured the US would not pay the debts of rebellious states

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14th amendment

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Ensures that race cannot be used as criteria for voting

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15th amendment

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Ensures gender cannot be used as criteria for voting -women can vote

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19th amendment

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Ensured no tax could be charged to vote for any federal office

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24th amendment

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