POLI 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Nancy Pelosi, Intermediate Scrutiny, American Civil Liberties Union
15 Feb 2017
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Poli chpt 6 civil rights notes: de jure: written laws that discriminate, de facto: not written, but are laws that allow for or lead to discrimination. How laws are implemented are discriminatory (racial profiling). Difficult to achieve even with policies meant to distribute wealth. Civil rights: positive rights politically, socially and economically, conferred by the government on individuals or groups previously denied them: fought by many different groups based on race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality etc. Alabama, but demonstrated in other ways by other groups: civil disobedience: passive resistance of unjust laws, favored by gandhi and later by mlk. Racial discrimination against blacks: anti-slavery movement began after revolution, based on ideas of progressive elimination, civil war ultimately became battle over slavery. De fact continued to be an issue in many schools though. Act of 1964 that banned public and private discrimination in accommodations and hiring: the 1965 voting rights act struck down voting restrictions and the 1968 civil.
