APPS Gov Chapter 5 - Civil Rights and Public Policy Terms
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Civil Rights
Policies designed to protect people against arbitrary or discriminatory treatment by government officials or individuals
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Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
School segregation is inherently unconstitutional because it violates the fourteenth amendment
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Suffrage
The legal right to vote
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Fifteenth Amendment
Suffrage to African Americans
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Poll Tax
Taxes for voting
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White Primary
Device that permitted political parties to exclude African Americans from voting in primary elections
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Voting Rights Act of 1965
Law designed to help end formal and informal barriers to African American suffrage
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Nineteenth Amendment
Guarantees women the right to vote
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The Age Discrimination in Employment Act (1967)
Banned any kind of age discrimination
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Americans with Disabilities Act (1990)
Requires employers and public facilities to make "reasonable accommodations" for people with disabilities and prohibits discrimination against these individuals in employment
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Affirmative Action
A policy designed to give special attention to or compensatory treatment for members of some previously disadvantaged group