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| All rights rooted in the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of equal protection under the law. |
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| Separate-but-Equal Doctrine |
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| Its facilities do not violate the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution. |
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| A state primary election that restricted voting to whites only. Outlawed by the SC 1944. |
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| A device used by southern states to disenfranchise AAs . It restricted voting to those whose grandfather's had voted before 1867. |
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| A special tax that had to be paid as a qualification for voting. The 24 Amendment to the Constitution outlawed the poll tax in that national elections , and in 1966 , the SC declared it unconstitutional in state elections as well. |
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| A test administered as a precondition for voting, often used to prevent AAs from exercising their right to vote. |
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| Racial Segregation that occurs because of patterns of racial residence and similar social conditions. |
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| Racial Segregation that occurs because of laws or administrative decisions by public agencies. |
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| A nonviolent, public refusal to obey allegedly unjust laws. |
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| the right to vote. A vote given in favor of a proposed measure candidate, or the like. |
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| The movement that supports political, economic, and social equality for women. |
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| Any practice, policy, or procedure that denies equality of treatment to an individual or to a group because of gender. |
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| Unwanted physical or verbal conduct or abuse of a sexual nature that interferes with a recipient's job performance, creates a hostile work environment, or carries with it an implicit or explicit threat of adverse employment consequences. |
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| A policy in education admission or job hiring that gives special attention or compensatory treatment to traditionally disadvantaged groups in an effort to overcome present effects of past discrimination. |
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| Discrimination against individuals who are not members of the minority group. |
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| A judicidal standard for assessing the constitutionality of a law or government action when the law or action threatens to interfere with a fundamental right or potentially discriminated on the basis of race. |
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