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Topics. Definition of Civil Rights14th AmendmentEqual ProtectionDue ProcessPre-Civil Right Era Interpretations (1868 to 1955)Post-Civil Right Era Interpretations (1955 to Present) Dual CitizenshipJim Crow LawsEqual Protection Clause and SchoolsCivil Rights LegislationWomen and Equal Rights
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1. Chapter 19 Notes on the Textbook
2. Topics Definition of Civil Rights
14th Amendment
Equal Protection
Due Process
Pre-Civil Right Era Interpretations (1868 to 1955)
Post-Civil Right Era Interpretations (1955 to Present)
Dual Citizenship
Jim Crow Laws
Equal Protection Clause and Schools
Civil Rights Legislation
Women and Equal Rights
Affirmative Action and Reverse Discrimination
3. Civil Rights and Civil Liberties: Understanding the distinction Civil Rights
Protections against discriminatory treatment
policies that protect persons against arbitrary or discriminatory treatment by government or individuals.
examples of civil rights assertions include equal protection challenges, affirmative action and voting rights. Civil Liberties
Protections of freedoms and justice
individual legal and constitutional protections against the government
covers two broad areas
political freedoms
protections at the bar of justice
4. Civil rights the Constitutional Context Obligations of government to protect citizens from illegal actions of other private citizens or other government agencies.
Basis lies with the Fourteenth Amendment
Specifically:
"equal protection of the law" clause
due process clause
5. TheFourteenth All persons born or naturalized in the U.S. and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the U.S. and of the state wherein they reside . No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges and immunities of citizens of the U.S nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.