This chapter looks at our civil liberties under Presidents from Woodrow Wilson to Obama, and how events influenced our basic constitutional rights.
Assigned Readings:
Franklin Roosevelt and the Executive Order to remove Japanese Americans
LBJ and the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Joe McCarthy and The Red Scare
The Wayner Act, Labor's Magna Carta
The Civil Rights Division, Federal Protection for Civil Rights without the Bite
1935 Neutrality Act and Executive Power
The Match on Washington and FDR Confronts the Civil Rights Movement