Pros and Cons of Teenage Drinking

Anthony Jones

Session 22

Pgs. 114-122

Definition:

Equal Protection Clause

-Provision of the 14th Amendment guaranteeing citizens “the equal protection of the laws.” This clause has served as the basis for the civil rights of African Americans, women, and other groups

“Separate but Equal”

-doctrine that public accommodations could be segregated by race but still is equal

Plessy v. Ferguson

-1896 Supreme Court case that upheld legal segregation and created the “separate but equal” rule. This was upheld do to the Supreme Court interpretation that the 14th Amendment protects individuals from discrimination only against actions by public officials of state and local governments.

Brown v. Board of Education

-1954 Supreme Court decision that struck down the “separate but equal” doctrine as fundamentally unequal. This case eliminated state power to use race as a criteria of discrimination in law and provided the national government with the power to intervene by exercising strict regulatory policies against discrimatory actions.

Civil Rights 4 Areas

1. -Public Accommodations

2. -School Desegregation

3. -Employment

4. -Voting Rights

Tyreese Woodard

Article: Lobbyists, Guns and Money

Summary of Article:

The Article was about the American Legislative