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Transcript: Civil Rights By: Priscilla Oxford, Brock Benoit, Camden Adams, Caitlyn S How have Constitutional provisions supported and motivated social movements? How has the government responded to social movements? Constitutional Support and Government Response Civil Rights Racial The Civil Rights Movement and later passed Civil Rights Act of 1964 abolished racial segregation in society. But unfortunately that didn't fully stop racial segregration. Plessy v. Ferguson made it legal to have racial segration public places as long as they were "separate but equal" similar to many other Jim Crow laws legalizing racial segregation. President John F. Kennedy proposed to Congress, "They involve ecery American's right to vote, to go to school, to get a job, and to be served in a public place without arbitrary discrimination." Racial Segregation in Education Education This "Separate but Equal Doctrine" became a problem in the school system since black white schools were separate but never equal in funding Many court cases on this issue surfaced and became known as "Brown V. Board of Education" A black family tried to enroll their daughter into an all-white school nearby, they were denied. They brought the case to court since it was a violation of their 14th ammendment rights The court ruled in their favor and overturned Plessy v. Ferguson Racial Voting Rights Voting Rights Many African American voters were required to take literacy tests These were a strategy from southern states to prevent African Amercans from voting In 1965 Voting Rights Act was passed to abolish those literacy tests Southern States also enacted poll taxes on African Americans in order to vote The 24th Ammendment protected citizens to vote free of poll taxes Women's Rights Movement Womens To alter public policy against women and to obtain the right to vote Susan B Anthony led the charge on both fronts. She led the suffragists charge to protest for allowing more states to allow female votng. Eventually the suffragists were able to get their voice heard on a national level enforcing the 19th amendment to giving the right for women to vote all across the U.S. in 1920. However there was more changes necessary for the progress of female rights such as pursuing equality in the workplace, education opportunities, and enforcing that women be treated fairly. In these aspects of life organizations were made for such a purpose like the National Organization for Women (NOW) which pushed feminist issues to the public and aswell the federal governemnt Title IX of the Eduaction Amendments Education Title IX of the Education Amendments in 1972 guranteed that women have the same educational opportunities as men in programs receiving federal government funding. Which was an instrumental improvement to insure that women would get the same educational provisions in its entirty to men in the years to come. The Civil Rights and Equal Pay Act Workplace The 1960s were a monumental decade for womens rights and equality in the workplace. Before the civil rights act was established, women worked for the Equal Pay Act in 1963 which required that both men and women be payed the same wage for working the same job. This and later the Civil Rights Act established that women are a force in the workplace and shall not be discriminated against. Discrimination against LGBTQ community LGBTQ Early Members of the LGBTQ community faced discrimination daily similarily to those oppressed by the race or gender and had to fight for rights to intimacy, military service and marriage. A few federal example of these discriminations was the executive order signed by President Eisenhower to ban all "sexual perversion" in any sector of the federal governement including homosexuality. This aswell as the Defense of marriage act (DOMA) 1996 which declared that states did not have to recognize same sex marriages recognized in other states. Obergfell V. Hodges Legalization and marriage In the fight for Civil Rights by the LGBTQ community one landmark supreme court case would allow them to express freely their rights to marriage. This case was Obergfell V. Hodges in which the supreme court ruled 5-4 that states preventing same sex marriage violated the Constitution's Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Bostock V. Clayton The 1964 Civil Rights Act was instrumental to limiting workplace discrimination and prevented employers from refusing employment for reasons of race, color, and sex. However this act did not include sexuality or gender identity discrimination making it still legal to fire or refuse employmet on the basis of sexuality. Only until 2020 was workplace discrimintation of the LGBTG community outlawed in the landmark case of Bostock V. Calyton which had the supreme court rule that workplace discrimination was illegal throughout the nation under title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Workplace discrimination How has the Supreme Court allowed the restriction of the civil rights of
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