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| are rights of all Americans to equal treatment under the law. U.S. constitutional Amendment # 14 "No state shall deny any person equal protection of the law or due process of law." |
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| No state shall deny any person within its jurisdiction equal protection of the laws. |
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| doctrine of the supreme court in Pressy vs. Furguson (1896) held separate but equal facilities for blacks and whites is constitutional. |
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| Brown vs. Board of Education |
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| (1954) Supreme court held that separate but equal facilities are inherently unequal ordering desegregation to begin "with all deliberate speed." |
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| is segregation that is legally sanctioned by laws or decisions of government agencies. |
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| is segregation that occurs as a result of past social and economic conditions and residential housing patterns. |
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| was used to integrate school districts with with segregated housing patterns. |
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| the deliberate and public act of refusing to obey laws through the unjust. For example sit-ins at a segregated lunch counters were used by Rev. Martin Luther King Junior. |
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| legally integrated public places (hotels, restaurants, movies, buses) and banned employment discrimination and voter registration discrimination. |
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| the right to vote was legalized nationally with the 19th amendment. |
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| wage discriminations and glass ceiling |
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| obstacles to equality for women in the workplace. |
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| occurs when job hiring, promotion, salary increases and ability to keep one's job depends on sexual favors to an employer and a second form of sexual harassment called hostile work environment occurs when sexual comments, jokes, obscene material interfere with an employee's ability to do their job, in this case an employee must speak up and complain. |
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| faced discrimination with "English Only" laws |
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| Chinese excluded from work. Japanese sent to "WWII relocation centers" |
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| faced the harshest discrimination. Extermination by President Andrew Jackson and the Trail of Tears, to reservations, to cultural assimilation of children in boarding schools including Christian education to using Navaho language as code in WWII (movie Windtalkers) and Pride of the Native American museum on the National Mall close to the capitol. |
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| form is discrimination in which law enforcement officials assume the people of a certain race are more likely to commit crimes. |
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| prohibited against workers over 40 |
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| Americans with Disabilities Act |
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| ADA requires all public buildings and public services be accessible to person with disabilities and requires that employers make "reasonable accommodations" for workers with disabilities who are otherwise qualified for a job unless it would cause undue hardship on the employer. |
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| LGBT community faces discrimination in employment, wages, housing, marriage, custody of children, hospitals, military and public displays of affection |
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| attempted to end employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender or national orgin and promte equal job opportunities for all induviduals. |
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| a policy to establish programs that give special consideration in jobs, government grants and college admissions to members of groups that have been discriminated in the past. |
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| occurs when anglo americans are excluded because of unfair quotas set for minorities. |
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