American Government and Politics Today, Brief Edition, 2014-2015

96 PART onE • THE AmERiCAn sYsTEm lynching was illegal, but southern authorities rarely prosecuted these cases, and white juries ...

CHAPTER FivE • Civil RigHTs 97 De Facto Segregation Racial segregation that occurs because of patterns of racial residence and s ...

98 PART onE • THE AmERiCAn sYsTEm The march on Washington. In August 1963, African American leaders A. Philip Randolph and Bayar ...

CHAPTER FivE • Civil RigHTs 99 n It provided for the withholding of federal funds from programs administered in a discriminat ...

100 PART onE • THE AmERiCAn sYsTEm willing to vote for an African American as president, only 38 percent of the public said yes. ...

CHAPTER FivE • Civil RigHTs 101 Feminism The movement that supports political, economic, and social equality for women. major im ...

102 PART onE • THE AmERiCAn sYsTEm Gender Discrimination Any practice, policy, or procedure that denies equality of treatment to ...

CHAPTER FivE • Civil RigHTs 103 Sexual Harassment Unwanted physical or verbal conduct or abuse of a sexual nature that interfere ...

104 PART onE • THE AmERiCAn sYsTEm Hispanic Someone who can claim a heritage from a Spanish-speaking country. Hispanics may be o ...

CHAPTER FivE • Civil RigHTs 105 Today, the United States has a below-replacement fertility rate of 1.9 children per woman. Hispa ...

106 PART onE • THE AmERiCAn sYsTEm The demographic Collapse. During the years after Columbus arrived in America, native populati ...

CHAPTER FivE • Civil RigHTs 107 Affirmative Action A policy in educational admissions or job hiring that gives special attention ...

108 PART onE • THE AmERiCAn sYsTEm Reverse Discrimination Discrimination against individuals who are not members of a minority g ...

CHAPTER FivE • Civil RigHTs 109 interest. In effect, the Court’s opinion in Adarand means that an affirmative action program can ...

110 PART onE • THE AmERiCAn sYsTEm The Rights and Status of Gay Males and Lesbians On June 27, 1969, patrons of the Stonewall In ...

CHAPTER FivE • Civil RigHTs 111 Supreme Court ruled against the amendment because it violated the equal protection clause of the ...

112 PART onE • THE AmERiCAn sYsTEm unions.” The law entitled partners forming civil unions to receive some three hundred state b ...

CHAPTER FivE • Civil RigHTs 113 Anyone applying for a job may be subjected to a variety of potentially discriminatory practices. ...

114 PART onE • THE AmERiCAn sYsTEm affirmative action 107 civil disobedience 97 civil rights 92 de facto segregation 97 de jure ...

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