The document summarizes several important court cases and laws related to race and gender issues in U.S. history. It discusses how early laws and court rulings restricted the rights of Native Americans, Chinese immigrants, and enslaved people. It then summarizes key civil rights milestones like the Emancipation Proclamation, women's suffrage, and landmark Supreme Court cases establishing desegregation and same-sex marriage rights.
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The Struggle for Civil Rights Chapter 6CHAPTER 6 T.docxchristalgrieg
The Struggle for
Civil Rights
Chapter 6
CHAPTER 6: THE STRUGGLE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS
In this chapter you will:
Explore the seven steps to winning civil rights.
Review the African American experience that set the pattern for civil rights.
Assess women’s quest for economic and political rights.
Examine the political experience of Hispanics and Asians.
Consider the rights of other groups, including disabled people and same-sex partners.
CHAPTER 6: THE STRUGGLE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS
Seven Steps to Political Equality
A group defines itself.
The group challenges society.
The stories change.
Federalism comes into play.
The executive branch often breaks the ice.
Congress legislates a blockbuster.
It all ends up in court.
CHAPTER 6: THE STRUGGLE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS
How the Courts Review Cases
The courts have evolved three categories for determining whether laws or actions violate “the equal protection of the laws” guaranteed under the Fourteenth Amendment.
Suspect categories
Any legislation involving race, ethnicity, or legal aliens faces strict scrutiny.
Quasi-suspect categories
In 1976, women’s advocates won a special category for gender cases. Any legislation—federal, state, or local—that introduces sex-based categories has to rest on an important state purpose.
Nonsuspect categories
Other categories do not face special scrutiny—at least not yet. Legislation based on age, sexual orientation, or physical handicaps simply has to show a rational basis to survive in court.
CHAPTER 6: THE STRUGGLE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS
The Clash Over Slavery
By the middle of the nineteenth century, the dream of freedom had become a kind of religious faith in the slave quarters.
Abolition: an abolition movement rose up, branded slavery sinful, and demanded its immediate end.
Economics: it was impossible to avoid the slavery question for a fundamental economic reason.
As the United States spread west, every new settlement prompted the same question: Would it be slave or free?
Politics: every time a territory applied for statehood, it raised the question of the political balance between slave states and free states in the Senate.
CHAPTER 6: THE STRUGGLE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS
The Senate managed to negotiate the tensions with a series of artful compromises. The Missouri Compromise (in 1820) drew a line through the Louisiana Territory (at 36˚30′ North).
The Compromise of 1850 simply turned the decision over to the people in the territories. Known as popular sovereignty, it permitted the people of each territory to decide the question for themselves—slave or free.
The Clash over Slavery
Continued
CHAPTER 6: THE STRUGGLE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS
Dred Scott v. Sandford
In 1857, the Supreme Court stepped in with a shattering decision that upset all the careful arrangements and compromises.
A slave named Dred Scott sued for freedom. He argued that he had been taken to live in a free territory before returning to Missouri and that experienc ...
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Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
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We all have good and bad thoughts from time to time and situation to situation. We are bombarded daily with spiraling thoughts(both negative and positive) creating all-consuming feel , making us difficult to manage with associated suffering. Good thoughts are like our Mob Signal (Positive thought) amidst noise(negative thought) in the atmosphere. Negative thoughts like noise outweigh positive thoughts. These thoughts often create unwanted confusion, trouble, stress and frustration in our mind as well as chaos in our physical world. Negative thoughts are also known as “distorted thinking”.
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Indian Tribes: A Continuing Quest
for Survival: U.S. Commission on
Human Rights
American Indian civil rights issues have unfolded “in reverse
order from those of other minorities”:
Politically, other minorities started with nothing and
attempted to obtain a voice in the existing economic and
political structure.
Indians started with everything and have gradually lost
much of what they had to an advancing alien civilization.
Watch: How the US stole thousands of Native American
children
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Indian Tribes: A Continuing Quest
for Survival: U.S. Commission on
Human Rights
The consequence of this ongoing racism has been a
sustained view that:
Indians are wards of the Government who need the
protection and assistance of Federal agencies
It is the Government’s obligation to recreate their
governments, conforming them to a non-Indian model, to
establish their priorities, and to make or approve their
decisions for them.
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Elk v. Wilkins, 1884
John Elk was born on a reservation, but later moved
to Nebraska leaving his tribal affiliation. He was
denied the right to vote as not being a U.S. citizen.
The Supreme Court ruled against him even though
the 14th Amendment granted birth right and
citizenship
Congress passed the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924
which ended the exclusion of Native Americans from
citizenship rights
New Mexico was the last state to grant full rights to
NA in 1962
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The Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882
The Chinese Exclusion Act suspended the migration of Chinese
laborers to the United States.
The act affected both skilled and unskilled laborers and Chinese
people employed in mining.
“[T]he coming of Chinese laborers to this country endangers the
good order of certain localities within the territory…”
In other words, the Chinese Exclusion Act prevents the disruption
of existing social and racial hierarchies that were believed to be
threatened by the migration of Chinese workers.
The Chinese Exclusion Act - PBS America
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People v. Hall, 1854
In People v. Hall, the California Supreme Court stated that
evidence provided by Chinese witnesses is inadmissible
in the court of law
Several existing laws at the time legally dismissed
evidence produced by “Black, Mulatto or Indian” people if
it was directed “against a white man”
The court sought to extend the scope of these laws to
include “Asiatic” peoples.
The ruling resulted in the release of George Hall, a white
man who had been convicted of murdering a Chinese
man
7. + An Act for the Better Ordering
and Governing of Negroes and
Slaves, South Carolina, 1712
Model slave code in the South during colonial and national periods;
argued that the colony could not operate without enslaved labor
Empowers white colonists to “beat, maim or … kill” those who resist
enslavement
Section XII prohibits any form of “mutiny or insurrection, or rise in
rebellion against the authority and government” by slaves or anyone
assisting slave rebellions.
The fact that this was a measure introduced into law reveals the
degree to which slaves resisted these structures.
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An Act Prohibiting the Teaching of Slaves to
Read
The laws of this period dehumanized enslaved people and people of color
in order to maintain a society designed for white citizens.
Reading allowed enslaved people to find other sources of resistance, to
find places of refuge and writing offered ways of traveling and moving
through spaces more freely.
Enslaved people who were able to read and write could challenge the
legitimacy of slave owners
Help to dismantle the racist belief that enslaved people were not
intelligent, autonomous, or even human.
The legal system’s attempts to manage a white supremacist system of
slavery could not hide its own racial hierarchy.
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Dred Scott v. Sandford, 1857
“Can a negro, whose ancestors were imported into this country, and sold
as slaves, become a member of the political community formed and
brought into existence by the Constitution of the United States, and as
such become entitled to all the rights, and privileges, and immunities,
guarantied [sic] by that instrument to the citizen?”
According to the court, “the enslaved African race were not intended to be
included, and formed no part of the people who framed and adopted this
declaration.”
The Supreme Court reverses the decision of the lower court, declaring that
Dred Scott is not a citizen of the United States and therefore does not have
the right to bring this matter before the court.
The Dred Scott Case
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The Emancipation Proclamation
Proclamation issued by President Lincoln during the
Civil War to freed enslaved people:
“That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as
slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people
whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States,
shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.”
Role the U.S. military play in this new shift in American
history
Lincoln notes several concerns regarding the military’s role,
including the recognition of military enforcement of the new law,
as well as military service for “such persons of suitable
condition.”
The Emancipation Strategy - National Geographic
11. + United States Constitution: Thirteenth (1865),
Fourteenth (1868), and Fifteenth (1870)
Amendments
The Thirteenth Amendment (1865) makes all forms of slavery and
involuntary servitude illegal in the Unites States.
Slavery is outlawed except in the case of incarceration: “Neither slavery nor
involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall
have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States….”
The Fourteenth Amendment (1868) addresses several concerns on
determining citizenship, as well as rights and privileges for citizens. It
establishes Due Process of law and Equal Protection under the law.
The Fifteenth Amendment (1870) protects the right of U.S. citizens,
regardless of “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”
U.S. History 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments
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The Black Codes: W. E. B. Du Bois
The Black Codes are laws—legislation passed mostly by Southern
states—that systematically limited the rights and liberties of black
Americans.
Du Bois carefully outlines the ways that post-slavery conditions were not
very different from the conditions under legalized systems of slavery:
“Negroes were liable to a slave trade under the guise of vagrancy and
apprenticeship laws; to make the best labor contracts, Negroes must leave the
old plantations and seek better terms; but if caught wandering in search of
work, and thus unemployed and without a home, this was vagrancy, and the
victim could be whipped and sold into slavery.”
What were the black codes?
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Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896
Plessy v. Ferguson takes up the issue of equal protection
under the law as established in the Fourteenth
Amendment.
This proposition is rejected on the following grounds: “If
the two races are to meet upon terms of social equality, it
must be the result of natural affinities, a mutual
appreciation of each other’s merits and a voluntary consent
of individuals.
Plessy v. Ferguson Summary - Quimbee.com
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 1954
Black children denied admission to schools attended by white
children under laws requiring or permitting segregation
according to race.
Despite “separate but equal,” the plaintiffs, who are Black
minors, here contend that “segregated public schools are not
‘equal’ and cannot be made ‘equal,’ and that hence are
deprived of the equal protection of the laws.”
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 1954
Citing Sweatt v. Painter on the psychological cost of segregation on black
students, the court states that segregation policies essentially produce
the sentiment that schools for black students are inferior to schools for
white students.
Quoting the decision in Sweatt v. Palmer, the court asserts: “A sense of
inferiority affects the motivation of a child to learn.”
Segregation with the sanction of the law, therefore, has a tendency to
delay the educational and mental development of Black children and to
deprive them of some of the benefits they receive in a racially integrated
school system.
Brown v. Board of Education - PBS The Supreme Court
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McCleskey v. Kemp, 1987
McCleskey challenged his death sentence on the basis that racial
bias permeated the decision. He showed statistical data to show
that people of color were more likely to get the Death Penalty than
Whites in the State of Georgia.
The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that racial inequalities were
“inevitable” and dismissed the statistical evidence.
Case “closed the door” to any meaningful challenges to racial bias
in the criminal justice system including racial disparities in stop-
and-frisk practices, arrest patterns, plea bargains, conviction rates,
and criminal penalties
McCleskey was put to death. Justice Powell, who ruled
in favor of the decision, later stated he regretted it.
McCleskey v. Kemp Summary - Quimbee.com
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Shelby County v. Holder, 2013
Overturned a provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that
prevented localities with a history of voting discrimination from
establishing new requirements or additional voting requirements in
their jurisdiction (a.k.a. “preclearance”)
Chief Justice Roberts, who voted in favor, stated that “our country
has changed … and extraordinary measures are no longer
required.”
Justice Ginsberg, who dissented, noted that voting discrimination
has evolved into more subtle barriers
Since then States have enacted voter ID laws, voter purges, and
other measures that might have been disallowed by the
“preclearance” requirement
Suppressing the Vote - Shelby v. Holder
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Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions,
Seneca Falls Convention, 1848
The Declaration of Sentiments lists several, including
electoral disenfranchisement, subjection to unequal laws,
and rights withheld from women that are given easily to
men who are “natives and foreigners.”
What Happened at the Seneca Falls Convention?
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United States Constitution: Nineteenth
Amendment (1920)
The Nineteenth Amendment protects the right to vote
regardless of sex
Votes for women: How the Suffragists won
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Equal Rights Amendment (Defeated)
The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was first
introduced in 1923, but was not passed until 1972.
The ERA did not become part of the Constitution, however,
because it was not ratified by the required number of
states by the July 1982 ratification deadline.
She Derailed a Fight for Equal Rights for Women
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Roe v. Wade, 1973
Roe v. Wade establishes a woman’s right to terminate her
pregnancy by abortion.
The ruling is based on the right of privacy found in the
language of the Ninth and Fourteenth amendments.
The decision also recognizes the “interest of the state in
regulating decisions concerning the pregnancy during the
latter period as the fetus developed the capacity to
survive outside the woman’s body.”
Roe v. Wade, explained - newsy.com
22. + United States v. Bhagat Singh
Thind, 1923
The question before the court is whether Bhagat Singh Thind,
“a high-caste Hindu, of full Indian blood, born at Amritsar,
Punjab, India,” is a white person.
Although Caucasian is technically a “scientific” term, the court
said that it is “a conventional word of much flexibility” and that
the meaning commonly ascribed to it is the one that should be
considered. In other words, the common understanding is that
Caucasian means “white” and not a specific ancestral history
or “scientific” or racial category.
The court states that even if Thind is technically Caucasian,
“the physical group characteristics of the Hindus render them
readily distinguishable from the various groups of persons in
this country commonly recognized as white.”
The common understanding of what it means to be white is
more important than the “scientific” designation as Caucasian;
Thind can be Caucasian, but not white.
1923: U.S. v. Bhagat Singh Thind
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Obergefell v. Hodges, 2015
The ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges
Establishes that the Fourteenth Amendment requires a state to license a
marriage between two people of the same sex
And to recognize a marriage between two people of the same sex when their
marriage was lawfully licensed and performed in a different state.
The four principles that are named to show that the Obergefell decision is
constitutional are:
The Due Process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment protects personal
choices central to dignity and autonomy;
Marriage is fundamental under the Constitution and should be applied with equal
force to same-sex couples;
The right of same-sex couples to marry is included under the Equal Protection
guarantee in the Fourteenth Amendment;
The right to marry is a fundamental individual liberty.
Obergefell v. Hodges Summary - Quimbee.com