This document outlines a lecture on civil rights and equality in the United States. It covers: 1) definitions of key terms and approaches to civil rights, 2) the historical evolution of civil rights from slavery through the civil rights movement of the 1960s, and 3) contemporary issues regarding racial/ethnic relations and their role in politics today, such as affirmative action, racial profiling, and racial polarization in the Republican party.

1. WEEK #5 LECTURE #9
CIVIL RIGHTS &
EQUALITY PART 1
AMERICAN GOVERNMENT
PROFESSOR ANAND SHASTRI
FALL 2015

2. CIVIL RIGHTS & EQUALITY #1 OUTLINE
PART 1A) INTRODUCTION & 4 TYPES OF EQUALITY
PART 1B) HISTORICAL EVOLUTION OF CIVIL RIGHTS
PART 1C) CIVIL RIGHTS FOR OTHER RACIAL/ETHNIC MINORITIES
PART 1D) RACE/ETHNIC-RELATIONS & TODAY’S POLITICS

3. PART 1A) INTRODUCTION
& 4 TYPES OF EQUALITY

4. CIVIL RIGHTS & PATHS TO IT
•TERMS DEFINED (CR, RACISM, SEGREGATION)
APPROACHES
1)WORKING WITHIN THE POLITICAL PROCESS
2)LITIGATION
3)LEGAL BOYCOTT
4)CIVIL DISOBEDENCES

5. 4 TYPES OF EQUALITY
• POLITICAL EQUALITY
• SOCIAL EQUALITY
• ECONOMIC EQUALITY:
A) EQUAL OPPORTUNITY (CENTER-LEFT LIBERAL)
B) EQUAL OUTCOME (LEFT-WING RADICAL)
TODAY ECONOMIC EQUALITY MEANS EQUAL OUTCOME

6. PART 1B) HISTORICAL
EVOLUTION OF CIVIL
RIGHTS

7. ANTI-BLACK POLICIES PART OF GOV’T.
• DRED SCOTT V. SANFORD RULING
• FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT OF 1850
• EVEN IN NORTH AT START OF CIVIL WAR, PUBLIC OPINION
AGAINST RIGHT FOR BLACKS
• SLAVERY WAS NOT JUST ON THE MORAL DIMENSION

8. POST-CIVIL WAR LIFE FOR BLACK-AMERICANS
• 3 CIVIL WAR AMENDMENTS
• AFTER 13TH, BLACK CODES
• RECONSTRUCTION
• JIM CROW
• PLESSY V. FERGUSON (1896)

9. NAACP & STRATEGY OF COURT CASE
• AIMS OF NAACP
• BLACKS ADVANCE, BUT THIS TIME NOT BY REPUBLICAN
SUPPORT AGAIN, BUT BY JOINING ROOSEVELT COALITION 68-32
• EDUCATION BUT AT LAW SCHOOL LEVEL. WHY?
• BROWN V. BOARD OF ED (STRICT SCRUTINY PG. 192)

10. CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• ROSA PARKS, SIT-IN LED TO MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
• MLK JR. “VS.” MALCOLM X (LATER BECAME) “AND”
• BLACK & LIBERAL WHITE COLLEGE STUDENTS “FREEDOM RIDERS”
• TURNING POINTS: BIRMINGHAM, “MISSISSIPPI BURNING”

11. RACIAL DISCRIMINATION & REMEDIES
• DE JURE DISCRIMINATION
• DE FACTO DISCRIMINATION
• BUSING
• EARLY AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
• WAR ON POVERTY

12. 60’S CIVIL RIGHTS LAWS & AMENDMENT
• 1964 CIVIL RIGHTS ACT
• 1965 VOTING RIGHTS ACT
• 1968 FAIR HOUSING ACT
• 24TH AMENDMENT IN 1964

13. PART 1C) CIVIL RIGHTS
FOR OTHER
RACIAL/ETHNIC
MINORITIES

14. HISPANIC-AMERICANS (LATINOS)
• VERY DIVERSE NOT MONOLITHIC
• BASIS OF DISCRIMINATION
• OBSTACLES TO EQUALITY? OVERCOMING?
• LATINO POLITICS (VOTING, IMMIGRATION, REPRESENTING)

15. NATIVE AMERICANS
• CONSTITUTION
• BASIS OF DISCRIMINATION
• ROADBLOCKS TO EQUALITY? STRATEGY: ECON VS. POLS
• NATIVE AMERICAN POLS (VOTING, DEMOGRAPHY)

16. ASIAN-AMERICANS & INDIAN-AMERICANS
• EARLY DISCRIMINATION TOWARDS CHINESE & JAPANESE
• BASIS OF DISCRIMINATION TOWARDS ASIANS & INDIANS
• THINGS CAUSING LESS DISCRIMINATION TO THEM
• ASIAN & INDIAN POLITICS (VOTING, REPRESENTATION & MORE)

17. PART 1D) RACE/ETHNIC-
RELATIONS & TODAY’S
POLITICS

18. RACIAL/ETHNIC POLICY ISSUES
• AFFIRMATIVE ACTION: DIFFERENT ARGUMENTS
• RACIAL PROFILING & TURNING DOWN RACIAL FAVORITISM
• RACE & CLASS: CUTTING POVERTY, EXPANDING OPPORTUNITY
• CONFEDERATE FLAG

19. RACE-RELATIONS: ISSUES & STATE OF
• INTERRACIAL RELATIONSHIPS/MARRIAGES
• INTERRACIAL & INTRARACIAL TURF-WARS, POLS, CRIME
• DESGREGATION, RESEGREGATION
• RACIAL POLARIZATION AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY

20. RACE/ETHNICITY: BEHAVIOR & VIEWS OF
• DIFFERENT RACES BEING VIEWED DIFFERENTLY
• EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT & INCOME ON RACE
• PROXIMITY OR DISTANCE FROM OTHER RACES/ETHNICITIES
• AGE AND OUR FUTURE