AP U.S. GOVERNMENT & POLITICS – Civil Rights Civil Rights – part 2

AP U.S. GOVERNMENT & POLITICS – Civil Rights Civil Rights Act of 1964 Proposed by Kennedy 5 months before he died Pushed through Congress by Lyndon B. Johnson “We’ve just lost the South for a generation”.

AP U.S. GOVERNMENT & POLITICS – Civil Rights Civil Rights Act of 1964 Made racial discrimination illegal in hotels, motels, restaurants, and other public places. Forbade discrimination in employment on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, or gender.

AP U.S. GOVERNMENT & POLITICS – Civil Rights Civil Rights Act of 1964 Created the EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission) to monitor & enforce protections against job discrimination Provided for withholding federal grants from state & local governments that practiced racial discrimination

AP U.S. GOVERNMENT & POLITICS – Civil Rights Civil Rights Act of 1964 Strengthened voting rights legislation Authorized the U.S. Dept. of Justice to initiate lawsuits to desegregate public schools and facilities

AP U.S. GOVERNMENT & POLITICS – Civil Rights 24 th Amendment Ratified in 1964 Declared that poll taxes in federal elections are not allowed. 2 years later the Supreme Court held that poll taxes in state elections are a no-no Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elections

AP U.S. GOVERNMENT & POLITICS – Civil Rights Voting Rights Act of 1965 Meant to end barriers to African American suffrage (voting). Prohibited use of procedures that denied a person the vote based on race or color. Abolished use of literacy requirements for anyone who had completed the 6 th grade.

AP U.S. GOVERNMENT & POLITICS – Civil Rights Women Abigail Adams Wife of John Adams In a letter to him while he attended the Constitutional Convention remember the ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.

AP U.S. GOVERNMENT & POLITICS – Civil Rights Women Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.

AP U.S. GOVERNMENT & POLITICS – Civil Rights Women John Adams In his response to Abigail’s letter... As to your extraordinary code of laws, I cannot but laugh. We have been told that our struggle has loosened the bonds of government everywhere; that children and apprentices were disobedient; that schools and colleges were grown turbulent; that Indians slighted their guardians, and negroes grew insolent to their masters.

AP U.S. GOVERNMENT & POLITICS – Civil Rights Women John Adams In his response to Abigail’s letter... But your letter was the first intimation that another tribe, more numerous and powerful than all the rest, were grown discontented.– This is rather too coarse a Compliment but you are so saucy, I won’t blot it out.

AP U.S. GOVERNMENT & POLITICS – Civil Rights Women Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments Birth of the women’s rights movement We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal;. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

AP U.S. GOVERNMENT & POLITICS – Civil Rights Women Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her..

AP U.S. GOVERNMENT & POLITICS – Civil Rights Women Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments... we insist that they have immediate admission to all the rights and privileges which belong to them as citizens of these United States..

AP U.S. GOVERNMENT & POLITICS – Civil Rights Women In 1872 Susan B. Anthony was arrested for voting in the presidential election. She was found guilty and fined $100. I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty!

AP U.S. GOVERNMENT & POLITICS – Civil Rights Women 19 th Amendment ratified (1920) The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.

AP U.S. GOVERNMENT & POLITICS – Civil Rights Women Equal Rights Amendment Introduced in Congress in 1923 Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.

AP U.S. GOVERNMENT & POLITICS – Civil Rights Women Equal Rights Amendment Introduced in every session of Congress after finally passed in... Ratified by 35 states Therefore... NOT an Amendment 1972

AP U.S. GOVERNMENT & POLITICS – Civil Rights Women Reed v. Reed 1971 Supreme Court, for 1 st time, upheld claim of gender discrimination. Found it violated... Equal protection clause of the 14 th Amendment

AP U.S. GOVERNMENT & POLITICS – Civil Rights Women Civil Rights Act of 1964  Banned gender discrimination in employment Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978  Illegal to exclude pregnancy & childbirth from sick leave & benefits plans

AP U.S. GOVERNMENT & POLITICS – Civil Rights Women Title IX of the Education Act of 1972 Forbids gender discrimination in federally subsidized education programs Including athletics... leading to...