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100
This innocent African immigrant was stopped by four white off-duty police officers who shot him forty-one times because he reached for his wallet and officers said they thought it was a gun.
Who was Amadou Diallo?
100
He signed legislation for reduction of the hundred-to-one disparity in sentencing for crack versus powder cocaine to eighteen to one.
Who is President Obama?
100
The Supreme Court ruled that racial bias in sentencing, even if shown through credible statistical evidence, could not be challenged under the Fourteenth Amendment in the absence of clear evidence of conscious, discriminatory intent.
What is McCleskey v. Kemp?
100
Abolished slavery, and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
What is The 13th Amendment?
100
The racial ideology that posits the best way to end discrimination is by treating individuals as equally as possible, without regard to race, culture, or ethnicity.
What is colorblindness?
200
Were Jim Crow Laws passed before Reconstruction or after Reconstruction?
Jim Crow Laws were passed AFTER Reconstruction.
200
He called for a “war on drugs”—and declared illegal drugs “public enemy number one”- although he didn't propose any dramatic shifts in drug policy.
Who is President Nixon?
200
Federal public defenders tried unsuccessfully to prove that whites were being diverted by federal prosecutors to the state system, where the penalties for crack offenses were far less severe, and requested access to the prosecutors’ records to find out just how many white defendants were transferred to the state system and why.
What is Armstrong v. United States?
200
Defines citizenship, contains the Privileges or Immunities Clause, the Due Process Clause, the Equal Protection Clause, and deals with post–Civil War issues.
What is The 14th Amendment?
200
The militarized nature of law enforcement in ghetto communities has inspired rap artists and black youth to refer to the police presence in black communities by this name.
What is "The Occupation"?
300
After Reconstruction, where were Jim Crow Laws passed? In the North or the South?
Jim Crow Laws were passed in the SOUTH after Reconstruction.
300
In October 1982, this President officially announced his administration’s War on Drugs, making good on his promise to crack down on the racially defined “others”—the undeserving black and minority communities.
Who is President Reagan?
300
The Supreme Court ruled that any race-neutral reason, no matter how silly, ridiculous, or superstitious, is enough to satisfy the prosecutor’s burden of showing that a pattern of striking a particular racial group is not, in fact, based on race.
What is Purkett v Elm?
300
Prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures and sets out requirements for search warrants based on probable cause as determined by a neutral judge or magistrate.
What is the 4th Amendment?
300
The myth of the Black man as a criminal, this expression is used when referring to the stereotyping of minorities as criminals.
What is "criminalblackman"?
400
Which of the following was NOT an effect of Jim Crow Laws? A) Unfair poll taxes and voting tests were established to keep African American men from voting. B) African Americans found it very difficult to vote or hold public office. C) African Americans were forced to use separate, poor-quality facilities and services, such as drinking fountains, restrooms, and restaurants. D) African-American and white children attended same schools.
D) African-American and white children attended same schools.
400
More than any other president,—with his creation of the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) and the “One Strike and You’re Out” Initiative for federally-assisted public housing projects-he created the current racial undercaste.
Who is President Clinton?
400
The Supreme Court concluded in this case that it was permissible under the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment for the police to use race as a factor in making decisions about which motorists to stop and search.
What is United States v. Brignoni-Ponce?
400
Prohibits the denial of the right to vote based on race, color or previous condition of servitude.
What is The 15th Amendment?
400
The hidden underworld of legalized discrimination and permanent social exclusion that former prisoners become a part of.
What is an undercaste ?
500
What was the purpose of Jim Crow Laws?
Jim Crow Laws were established to take away the rights and freedoms gained by African Americans during Reconstruction and reinforce the prejudices held by many Southern white people during this time period.
500
He opposed affirmative action and was aggressively against civil rights enforcement, embracing the drug war with great enthusiasm and proclaiming in August 1989 that drug use was “the most pressing problem facing the nation.
Who is President Bush?
500
The Court held in this case that police officers are free to use minor traffic violations as an excuse to stop motorists for drug investigations—even when there is no evidence whatsoever that the motorist has engaged in drug crime.
What is Whren v. United States?
500
Prohibits excessive fines and excessive bail, as well as cruel and unusual punishment.
What is The 8th Amendment?
500
State and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States. Enacted by white Democratic-dominated state legislatures in the late 19th century after the Reconstruction period, these laws continued to be enforced until 1965.
What is Jim Crow?