Civil Rights

1
Civil Rights

• Overview
• Definitions
• Constitutional Treatment
• Civil Rights Movements
• Conclusion

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Civil Rights

• Definition
• a. Textbook Definition
• b. Compared to Civil Liberties
• - Negative and Positive Liberty
• c. Emphasis on Civil Liberties

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Civil Rights

• II. Constitutional Treatment
• a. Preamble
• b. Equality an Elusive Term
• - Opportunity, Starting-
• Conditions, Results
• c. Clear not all Equal

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Civil Rights

• Civil Rights Movements
• a. Politics and the Womens Movement
• - Chapters Abolition, The West,
• Temperance, Progressivism and
• the Winning Strategy
• - 19th Amendment
• - 2nd Wave

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Civil Rights

• b. The Struggle for Racial Justice
• 1. General Progression
• 2. Amendments
• - 13th Amendment (1865)
• - 14th Amendment (1868)
• - 15th Amendment (1870)

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Civil Rights

• 3. Segregation
• - Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896)
• - Brown vs. Board of Education
• of Topeka (1954)
• 4. Legislation
• - Civil Rights Act of 1964
• - Voting Rights Act of 1965
• - Civil Rights Act of 1991

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Civil Rights

• c. Emerging Civil Rights Movements
• - Latinos
• - Gays and Lesbians
• - Other Groups?

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Civil Rights

• IV. Conclusion
• a. General Trends
• b. Objectives of Civil Rights
• Movements