Civil Rights - Class 3

3. How has suffrage expanded for different demographic groups in American history?

1. Summarize: Voting Rights
• What are the key amendments we should know?
• 15th Amendment (1870)
• 17th Amendment (1913)
• 19th Amendment (1920)
• 23th Amendment (1961)
• 24th Amendment (1964)
• 26th Amendment (1971)
2. 3-2-1 Blog Post: Same Sex Marriage
• What did we learn about strategy behind the civil rights movement for same-sex marriage?
• The Marriage Plot (Atlantic)
• What did the Supreme Court rule?
• Timeline (Oyez)
• Hollingsworth v. Perry (Oyez)
• U.S. v. Windsor (Oyez)
• Impact (New Yorker)

Civil Rights - Class 2

1. How does the Supreme Court have the constitutional power 

to make civil rights policy?

2. How do Congress and the President have the constitutional power 

to make civil rights policy?

1. Recap: Selective Incorporation
• How have civil liberties (the Bill of Rights) been selectively incorporated?
• "... nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without DUE PROCESS of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
• Gitlow v. New York
• How have civil rights been granted by the Supreme Court?
• "... nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the EQUAL PROTECTION of the laws."
• Brown v. Board of Education
2. 3-2-1 Blog Post: Segregation
• What is the difference between De Jure Segregation and De Facto Segregation?
• What did you learn from segregation today?
• 'Why don't we have any white kids?' (NY Times)
3. Create: Oral Arguments
• How has the Supreme Court ruled on affirmative action?
• UC Regents v. Bakke
• Gratz v. Bollinger
• Grutter v. Bollinger
• Fisher v. University of Texas

Civil Rights - Class 1

1. How does the Supreme Court have the constitutional power 

to make civil rights policy?

2. How do Congress and the President have the constitutional power 

to make civil rights policy?

1. Summarize: Policymaking Institutions & Civil Rights 
• How did the Supreme Court make policy with Brown v. Board of Education (1954)?
• 14th Amendment
• How did Congress and the President make policy with the Civil Rights Act (1964)?
• Article I, Section 8
2. Case Study: Ex Parte Endo
• What was James Purcell's background? Mitsuye Endo? How did they connect?
• What was the question, path, and outcome of the Endo case?
• Summary
• Mr. Purcell's Brief
• Article I, Section 9
• What else can we learn from Mr. Purcell's life as a civil rights lawyer?