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Warm-Ups 02/18. These need to go in UNIT III Warm-Ups Section What Supreme Court decision stated “separate but, equal?” What Supreme Court decision decided that all schools should be integrated?. Warm-Ups 03/01. Name the largest minority group in the United States.
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Warm-Ups 02/18 • These need to go in UNIT III Warm-Ups Section • What Supreme Court decision stated “separate but, equal?” • What Supreme Court decision decided that all schools should be integrated?
Warm-Ups 03/01 Name the largest minority group in the United States. What group is the fastest growing minority group in the US?
Heterogeneous Society • A.K.A. Mixed, Melting Pot, etc. • Historically, the U.S. has been predominately Caucasian (1790, 1st Census – 4 out of 5 people were Caucasian) • Immigration has changed the composition of the U.S. population throughout history
Race-Based Discrimination • White Americans, historically, have been reluctant to give equal rights to African Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Women
African Americans: Why such a focus? • 2nd Largest minority group • Victims of consistent and deliberate unjust treatment for a longer time than most • Most gains in guaranteeing equality have come from effects made by African Americans
Native Americans • Historically, Native Americans have been pushed from there ancestral lands to the Great Plains • Forced on to reservations • Poverty, joblessness, and alcoholism are just a few consequences of the overwhelming discrimination
Hispanic Americans (Spanish Speaking) • Largest and 2nd fastest growing minority • Divisions: (1) Mexican Americans, (2) Puerto Ricans, (3) Cuban Americans, and (4) Central & South Americans
Asian Americans • Assimilation: process by which people merge into and become part of another culture • 1850’s: 1st arrived as miners • Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) • Japanese Internment Camps (World War II) • Today, fastest growing population
Women • Majority group • Historically, women have not enjoyed the same rights as men (property rights, education, employment, suffrage, etc.) • Women’s Suffrage – 19th Amendment • Equal Pay Act of 1963 • Civil Rights Act of 1964 • Still, today, women earn less than men • Why? • Discrimination, history, motherhood, etc. • On average, a woman earn 80¢ for every $1 a man earns • Historically, only low-paying jobs were available to women
Equal Protection Clause • 14th Amendment: “No state shall…deny…equal protection of the laws.” • Reasonable Classification • Government CAN discriminate reasonably • Example: taking away rights/privileges of prisoners • Government CAN NOT discriminate unreasonably • Example: every state taxes cigarettes, they can’t only tax male smokers
Segregation in American • Separation of one group from another • Example: Jim Crow Laws were enforced to segregate African Americans from whites • Separate-but-Equal Doctrine • Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896: decided that equal facilities will be provided for both blacks and whites – justified segregation by race • Brown v. Board of Education, 1954: reversed the Plessy v. Ferguson decision; called for desegregation (integration) • De Jure, De Facto Segregation • De Jure Segregation: Segregation by law • De Facto Segregation: Segregation, even if no law requires it