bell ringer o the road to civil rights o turn in your 1) revised source list, 2) thesis &...

Bell ringerO The Road to Civil Rights

O Turn in your 1) revised source list, 2) thesis & annotated bib and 3) SC Case Packet

Civil RightsEqual Protection Under the Law

Today we will …

Objectives Agenda

O Summarize the civil rights movement & women’s movement, including key principles and court cases.

O Slide/notesO SC Cases – pair/shareO ClosureO Reading Quiz – ch 19

O HW: Study for Unit Test on Friday

Brown v Board of EdO https://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTGHLdr-iak

SegregationO de Jure -

segregation by law (now illegal)O ex. The South in

1865-1964

O de Facto – segregation in fact, not by lawO ex. Milwaukee

Swann v Charlotte-Mecklenburg

O Rejected “freedom of choice” plansO Were federal courts constitutionally

authorized to oversee and produce remedies for state-imposed segregation?

“Broad & Flexible” Remedies

Decision stated if schools were legally segregated before, authorities had an obligation to overcome past discriminationO Remedies can include quotas,

busing, redrawing school district lines What do

you think was the result of court ordered bussing? Did it accomplish its goal?

1964 Civil Rights BillO Broad in scope w/strong enforcement

mechanismsO Voting, employment, schools &

public accommodationsO Johnson moved after JFK

assassinatedO Discharge petition in HouseO Filibuster & cloture in Senate

Check for understanding

Put these landmark Civil Rights cases in order:1. Plessy v Ferguson2. Dred Scot case3. Swann v Charlotte-Mecklenburg4. Brown v Board of Ed

Pair/ShareO Each partner will read about a court

case & answer the questions.O Then, share with your partner and

explain your answers.

Check for understanding

O Explain the connection between the 14th Amendment, Roe v Wade and the right to privacy.

ClosureO Identify which provision (part) of the

14th Amendment was applied in the following cases and explain the significance of each decision in US politics.O Brown v. Board of Education of

Topeka, KSO Regents of the University of California

v. Bakke

HomeworkO Test on Judiciary, CL & CR on Friday

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