Civil Rights ORELA Exam Study Guide.
Brown v Board of education - answerTopeka Kansas, equal protection for all students
-Af. Ams. fought in war with all races, civil rights helped Af. Ams.
Executive Order 9981 - answerrespect all soldiers no matter the race
-only affected veterans (male)
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Brown v Board of education - answer✔Topeka Kansas, equal protection for all students
-Af. Ams. fought in war with all races, civil rights helped Af. Ams.
Executive Order 9981 - answer✔respect all soldiers no matter the race
-only affected veterans (male)
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) - answer✔wanted to
change segregated schools, Af. Ams. got worse schooling (integration)
Plessey v. Ferguson - answer✔separate but equal school systems
-overturned in 1954
-opposed brown v board
14th amendment - answer✔all citizens have the right to equal protection of law in all states
little rock arkansas - answer✔9 black kids had to be protected when going to a white school
james meredith - answer✔first Af. Am. to enroll at university of mississippi, there were troops
sent to protect him
to stop people from voting (against the 15th amendment) - answer✔they would tax, make tests,
use intimidation
-1964 the poll tax was abolished and poor people could vote
civil rights act 1964 - answer✔prohibited discrimination of all kinds based on race, color, and
nationality
Federal government - answer✔has the power to enforce voting laws
Executive Order 11246 (Johnson) - answer✔affirmative action, requires states to hire
minorities
civil rights act of 1968 - answer✔prohibits discrimination in sale/ rental/ financing of houses,
this affected the integration of schools because people did not live in the school district area
Title VI 1965 - answer✔to stop racism in federally funded schools, they said that there could be
no racism in the federally funded schools
Title IX - answer✔an extension of Title VI of the civil rights act of 1964. halt discrimination of
women in any federally funded education program or activity.
- this was also to stop the federal gvmt. from paying for schools who discriminated (or any
activity funded by the federal gvmt.) prohibits discrimination : sex, in any educational program
or activity that recieves federal funding, directly or indirectly (sexual harassment, equal
opportunity in athletics, and discrimination against pregnancy)
rehabilitation act of 1973 - answer✔Nixon, prohibits discrimination of disability in anything
federal
Americans with disabilities Act (ADA) - answer✔civil rights law, an expansion of the 504
-to be protected you need a dissability or a close person with a dissability.clear comprehensive
national mandate for the elimination of discrimination against individuals with disabilities.
protects discrimination of people with disabilities in employment, public services
(transportation), and public accommodations (private entities) elimination of discrimination
against individuals with disabilities
(ex: employment, public services, accommodations, services operated by private entities)
categories of discrimination - answer✔race, nationality, religion, sex, age, dissability, and
marital status
Title VI of the civil rights act (Federal law) - answer✔prohibits discrimination on race, color
nationality, against any student in a federally funded school (main problems: segregation, racism,
denial of language services) to abolish discrimination based on race and country of origin in
programs or activities that receive federal funding.
Title IX of education Amendments of 1972 - answer✔prohibits discrimination of sex, anything
funded by the federal gvmt., and anything that is discrimination whether it is direct or indirect.
(ex: sexual harrassment, equal opportunity in athletics, pregnancy discrimination)
Americans with Disabilities Act - answer✔)
Title 1 ADA - answer✔protects "qualified individuals with a disability"
Title 2 ADA - answer✔extends the duty not to discriminate on the basis of a disability
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