Executive Orders
This executive order allowed for the forced removal and imprisonment of Japanese and Japanese Americans who were living on the West Coast during World War II.
What is Executive Order 9066?
This Supreme Court Case brought an end to de jure racism in public schools.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This legislative act authorized the U.S. Attorney General to send federal examiners where voter discrimination was suspected and supersede state registrars.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
This historical figure stated that racial justice had to be obtained for African Americans "by any means necessary."
Who is Malcolm X?
What is Black Lives Matter?
This executive order prohibited the discriminatory employment practices by federal agencies and all unions and companies engaged in war-related work
What is Executive Order 8802?
This Supreme Court case ruled that the War Relocation Authority could not continue to hold loyal U.S. citizens in the camps against their will.
What is Endo's Case?
This legislative act established the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to enforce laws that banned discriminatory employment practices.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
This historical figure came to national prominence as an investigative journalist by writing an exposé on the exploitative working conditions associated with being a playboy bunny.
Who is Gloria Steinem?
This Civil Rights campaign during the Easter season featured the "Children's Crusade" or the "Children's March."
What is the Birmingham Campaign?
This executive order established the first general loyalty program in the United States in order to root out Communist influences in the federal government.
What is Executive Order 9835?
This Supreme Court Case ruled that as long as political activism presented a "clear and present danger" (rather than simply a "clear and probable danger") then the U.S. government had the right to place limits on the First Amendment right to free speech.
What is Dennis v. the United States?
This law made it possible for undocumented immigrants who arrived in the United States as children to work legally in the United States.
What is the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)?
This historical figure was said to be the president who "kicked" the Vietnam Syndrome.
Who is President George H.W. Bush?
This movement featured the "body upon the gears" speech by 22 year old Mario Savio.
What is the Freedom of Speech Movement.
This executive order banned homosexuals from working in the federal government or any of its private contractors.
What is Executive Order 10450?
What is Norton v. Macy?
Together, these two laws eliminated judicial review of some deportation orders, required mandatory detention for some noncitizens, and introduced a potential for the use of secret evidence in certain cases.
What is the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) and the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA)?
This historical figure was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white person on the bus in Montgomery, Alabama before Rosa Parks was arrested for the very same act.
Who is Claudette Colvin?
In Korematsu v. the United States, Fred Korematsu fought against his arrest for disobeying orders to report for internment by citing this amendment.
What is the fifth amendment?