Activists
This person refused to sit at the back of the bus.
Who is Rosa Parks
______________ showcased that equal protection clause could be circumvented.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
The right of every person to equal protection under the laws and equal access to society's opportunities and public faculties
What is Civil Rights
______ had fairly different views as Martin Luther King that often put them at odds
Who is Malcolm X
______ banned forced segregation in schools
Part of the 14th amendment "no state shall deny to any person within it's jurisdiction the eqaul protection of the laws"
What is the Equal Protection Clause
_______ was assasinated in his home in Jackson Mississippi by a white supremacist which inspired the film "Ghosts of Mississippi"
Medgar Evers
___________ was a lanmark united states supreme court case upholding the exclusion of japanese americans from west coast military areas during WWII
What is Korematsu v. U.S.
State governments should fight desegregation by any means
What is the Southern Manifesto
__________ was granted access to the University of Oklahoma in 1949
Ada Spivel
______________ guaranteed the right of homosexual marriage to be legal under the 14th amendment
Obergefell v. Hodges
A test that states discrimination towards a group is acceptable in law, when there is a good reason for it
What is the Reasonable Basis Test
What japanese american was imprisoned for avoiding japanese concentration camps in America during World War II?
Who is Fred Korematsu
What court case issued that gender may be moving towards a suspect classification?
What is U.S. v. VA (1996)
This test determines whether a law disproportionately impacts members of a race/ethnicity.
What is the Strict Scrutiny Test