Civil rights in America : a handbook of legal history /

"It's time for a textbook blending American history and American law. The key events and landmark cases found in these pages provide a candid look at civil rights in America -- pitting the American ideals of All men are created equal and Equal justice under law against a powerful enemy, wh...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McLinden, Daniel, 1947- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Irvine : Universal-Publishers, Inc., 2020
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Courts, slavery, and discrimination
  • Nearly twenty years after the Civil War and no equality for blacks
  • Inequality "separate but equal" segregation exclusion v. equality integration inclusion
  • Targeting blacks and Asian Americans
  • Unequal schools and restrictive covenants
  • Separate but equal
  • Desegregation
  • Privacy
  • The commerce clause
  • Privacy and sex
  • Discrimination
  • Abortion
  • (Gender) sex equality
  • Burning the flag, sexual orientation, and voting
  • Native Americans and DACA