Lecture Outline
Week 7
Civil Rights Lecture Outline
Civil Rights Website (Resources) Civil Rights - Introduction

• Definition
• Importance of the 14th Amendment
• Civil rights and civil liberties may conflict

 Civil rights do not come naturally.  They are the result of struggle and conflict.

• Pre-Civil War period
• Dred Scott Case
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Post-Civil War period
• Black codes
• 14th amdendment
• Reconstruction
• Lack of interest and enforcement by the Supreme Court
• De jure segration

Legal Discrimination

• Plessy v. Fergusan (1896)
• It's importance

NAACP - First Civil Rights Organization

• A fight for equality in the courts
• Slow national steps taken during the first part of the century
• Separate equal stands until 1954

Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

• Overturns Plessy
• Huge resistance
• Mob violence
• Federal action to enforce the rule
• Social movements make a difference

 Congressional Response

• Civil Rights Act of 1960
• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Voting Rights Act of 1965
• de facto segregation remains
• Affirmative action is about what steps government should take to ensure equality

Women and Civil Rights

• Gains but still underrepresented in government and corporate America
• Structural discrimination associated with having and raising children.
• Important work with little recognized value
• Wage, health, and pension implications
• Increased dependency because of the way the way the rules are structured.

Protections against discrimination extended to other groups

• Americans with disabilities Act of 1990
• Age claims
• Gays and lesbian movement

Affirmative Action

• What do we mean
• Tensions over equality
• Bakke vs. California Board of Regents
• Results

Affirmative action for university atheletes?