Civil Rigtts Flashcards
When did the civil war end?
1865
De facto segregation
Segregation by FACT not by law
De jure segregation
Racial Segregation by law
What r the amendments (‘civil war amendments’) that guarantee civil rights to the ppl and what r they?
13th : ends slavery
14th: equal protection,due process under the law and birthrights citizenship
15th: voting rights for black men
Also the 19th (women voting rights) and the 26ths (18 u can vote) but these two came after the civil war
13th amendment and when it was passed by Congress
Bans slavery passed January 1865
Who was in charge of the south and was involved in things like him crow laws and literacy tests ?
Southern democrats
Plessy v. Ferguson
Supreme Court established “desperate but equal”
-Louisiana : blacks and whites having to travel in seperatw railway cars was challenged
NAACP
National association for the advancement of colored people
Started 1910
Undid the Jim Crow laws eventually
Korematsu vs. United States
1944
Helps Strikes down “separate but equal”
Japanese were deprived of their rights after the civil war - the judge in this case vouched for ‘strict scrutiny’
This pushes gov to see that laws involving one race had compelling government interest
Brown v. Board of education (of Topeka)
- Supreme Court case that rejected the idea that separate could be equal in education
Affirmative action
A policy of creating opportunities for members of certain groups as a substantive remedy for past descrimination
Equal rights amendment
A constitutional amendment passed by Congress but never ratified that would have banned discrimination on the basis of gender
