Gov 16 Civil Rights
“Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate they can be taught to love. For love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite. Nelson Mandela
Strand: Civics and Government
Content Standard III: Students understand the ideals, rights, and responsibilities of citizenship and understand the content and history of the founding documents of the United States with particular emphasis on the United States and New Mexico constitutions and how governments function at local, state, tribal, and national levels. Students will:
9-12 Benchmark 3-A: compare and analyze the structure, power and purpose of government at the local, state, tribal and national levels as set forth in their respective constitutions or governance documents:
Analyze the development of voting and civil rights for all groups in the United States following reconstruction, to include:
a. intent and impact of the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments to the constitution;
b. segregation as enforced by Jim Crow laws following reconstruction;
c. key court cases (e.g., Plessy v. Ferguson, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Roe v. Wade);
d. roles and methods of civil rights advocates (e.g., Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Rosa Parks, Russell Means, César Chávez);
e. the passage and effect of the voting rights legislation on minorities (e.g., 19th amendment, role of Arizona supreme court decision on Native Americans,their disenfranchisement under Arizona constitution and subsequent changes made in other state constitutions regarding Native American voting rights -such as New Mexico, 1962, 1964 Civil Rights Act, Voting Act of 1965, 24th Amendment);
f. impact and reaction to the efforts to pass the Equal Rights Amendment,
g. rise of black power, brown power, American Indian movement, united farm workers;
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THE CONSTITUTION
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The Dred Scott Decision, 1857
The Reconstruction Amendments
Plessy V. Ferguson (1896)
Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka, 1954
The Civil Rights act of 1964
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Section 3 Equal Protection of the Law
The equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment means that state and local governments cannot draw unreasonable distinctions among different groups. The Supreme Court has developed three basic guidelines for considering whether a law or an action violates the equal protection clause. The rational basis test asks if the law is related to an acceptable government goal, such as safety. The Court analyzes a law to determine if it has a "suspect classification" based on race or national origin. The Court also closely scrutinizes a law dealing with fundamental rights. Laws that classify people unreasonably are said to discriminate. The Court, however, tests laws on their "intent to discriminate," not on whether they do discriminate.
Discrimination was a way of life after the Civil War. State and local Jim Crow laws in mostly Southern states required racial segregation. In 1896 the Supreme Court ruled that Jim Crow laws were constitutional in the case Plessy v. Ferguson. Plessy's "separate but equal" doctrine was overturned in 1954 in the case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. This decision marked the beginning of the long struggle to desegregate public schools. The civil rights movement that emerged after the Brown decision led to new civil rights laws that barred discrimination and ensured the right to vote.
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