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Exploring Civil Rights in American Federal Government

Delve into civil rights movements, court cases, and current issues such as affirmative action and protections for minorities, women, and gays/lesbians within the American federal government. Discover key historical events like Brown v. Board of Education and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Understand the complexities of civil rights and affirmative action policies, including debates on equality of opportunity versus outcome. Learn about landmark cases and legislation affecting various groups' rights, from African-Americans to women and LGBTQ individuals. Explore the impact of civil rights movements in the 1960s and their ongoing relevance in today's society.

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Exploring Civil Rights in American Federal Government

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  1. AmericanFederalGovernment • Today’s Agenda • Civil Rights

  2. Sometimes Government Isn’t the Problem • Civil Rights • legal or moral claims that citizens are entitled to make upon government • Question: Should government attempt to ensure equality of opportunity or equality of outcome? • Current issues: • affirmative action • protections for various groups from discrimination (minorities, women, gays/lesbians)

  3. That’s it, I’m dropping this course with all the court cases • The Fourteenth Amendment, “Equal Protection of the Laws,” and the Post-Civil War Struggle for African-Americans • The Slaugtherhouse Cases (1873) • U.S. v. Reese (1876) • De jure segregation • Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) • The “black codes,” Jim Crow laws, impediments to voting, separate schools • white primaries, poll taxes, literacy tests, political parties considered “clubs”

  4. You should of at least heard of this case • Desegregation in Education • Brown v. Board of Education (1954) • Brown v. Board of Education II (1955) • Little Rock, 1957 • Busing and de facto v. de jure segregation • Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg County Schools (1971) • Milliken v. Bradley (1974)

  5. Notice it wasn’t the Hippies that accomplished any of this • The Civil Rights Movement, 1960s - • Martin Luther King and civil disobedience • President Lyndon Johnson & “Great Society” • The Civil Rights Act of 1964 • 24th Amendment (1964) • Economic Opportunity Act (1964) • Voting Rights Act (1965) • Fair Housing Act (1968)

  6. Civil Rights/Affirmative Action • Definition of Affirmative Action: • government policies or programs that seek to redress past injustices against specified groups by making special efforts to provide members of the groups with access to educational and employment opportunities • temporary measures vs. institutionalized programs? • greater inclusion or increased “group” conflict? • “reverse” discrimination?

  7. Civil Rights/Affirmative ActionViews on University Admissions Source: James Kuklinski et al., American Journal of Political Science, 1997, pp. 402-419.

  8. Schools enjoy court • Higher Education • Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978) • Grove City College v. Bell (1984) • Civil Rights Restoration Act (1988) • Hopwood v. Texas (1996) • California Proposition 209 • President Clinton: “Mend it, don’t end it”

  9. Employers like Courts too • Employment and other issues • Richmond v. Croson (1989) • Adarand v. Pena (1995) • Employment • Johnson v. Transportation Agency of Santa Clara County (1987) • Civil Rights Act of 1991 • Piscataway v. Taxman (1997)

  10. Women dig the black robe…that’s why they go to court • Women • Voting • Minor v. Happersett (1875) • 19th Amendment (1920) • Sex-based discrimination • Equal Rights Amendment • U.S. v. Virginia (1996) [Virginia Military Institute]

  11. Gays and Lesbians like all types of courts • Gays and Lesbians • Bowers v. Hardwick (1986) • Clinton’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy in the military • Romer v. Evans (1996) • The Defense of Marriage Act (1996) • Lawrence v. Texas (2003)

  12. Everyone goes to court • Voting Rights • Voting Rights Act (1965) • racial gerrymandering & “descriptive representation” • Shaw v. Reno (1993) • North Carolina’s 12th District: The I-85 Corridor

  13. Gerrymander…then

  14. Gerrymandering…now • North Carolina’s 12th District

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