Chapter 27 Civil Rights by Jordan Wisner https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe Made with wonder en-us 2021-03-22 16:48:39 UTC 2025-11-03 13:03:12 UTC hello@padlet.com Although the 15th Amendment regulates that all states must allow citizens of all races to vote, different states have created laws that have directly kept African Americans from voting including poll taxes and literacy tests. 20489261 https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1339023693 2021-03-22 16:51:33 UTC https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1339023693 Plessy V. Ferguson has nationally allowed states to segregate school systems to keep races to their own schools. However, the schools are clearly not equal, which prevents Black communities from having equal opportunities. 20489261 https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1339026196 2021-03-22 16:51:59 UTC https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1339026196 Throughout the country African Americans and LGBT are being discriminated against in employment opportunities and even housing just because of their skin color or sexual orientation. There are no laws preventing such practices. 20489261 https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1339028875 2021-03-22 16:52:26 UTC https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1339028875 Since Plessy V. Ferguson there has been widespread segregation and discrimination in public facilities like transportation, restaurants, and bathrooms. The segregated places are clearly not equal even though they are separate. 20489261 https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1339033056 2021-03-22 16:53:05 UTC https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1339033056 Interracial and non-heterosexual relationships are a serious taboo and even illegal in many states. Certain marriage laws prevent the government licensing of certificates to interracial couples and there are no states that allow licenses being issues to LGBT couples. 20489261 https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1339040128 2021-03-22 16:54:15 UTC https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1339040128 Women are beginning to leave the household norm and instead work in corporate and other white-collar jobs. Unfortunately, they are being treated as lesser to men, being intimidated or treated differently, being paid less, and still expected to take care of the family. 20489261 https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1339048695 2021-03-22 16:55:40 UTC https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1339048695 Latin American immigrants and workers in the U.S. are working in difficult conditions as laborers and experiencing very poor pay, threats to their citizenship, and intimidation. 20489261 https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1339061943 2021-03-22 16:57:51 UTC https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1339061943 People who are LGBT are being arrested for simply being open about their sexual orientations and fired for being open at their jobs. 20489261 https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1339064923 2021-03-22 16:58:22 UTC https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1339064923 Problems 20489261 https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1389961326 2021-04-07 04:09:50 UTC https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1389961326 People involved 20489261 https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1389961689 2021-04-07 04:10:06 UTC https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1389961689 Tactics 20489261 https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1389962068 2021-04-07 04:10:22 UTC https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1389962068 Solutions/changed 20489261 https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1389962376 2021-04-07 04:10:34 UTC https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1389962376 The people that were involved in this issue were members of the LGBT community because they were being treated unequally because of their sexual orientation 20489261 https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1389964510 2021-04-07 04:12:06 UTC https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1389964510 LGBT rights began being published and brought into conversation nation wide. In 1961, Illinois became the first state to get rid of its anti-sodomy laws, effectively decriminalizing homosexuality, and a local TV station in California aired the first documentary about homosexuality, called The Rejected. Even after this there was still inequality to protests and sit in took place too. 20489261 https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1389983793 2021-04-07 04:25:35 UTC https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1389983793 The LGBT had to fight for equality for a very long time after the civil rights movement. People slowly started to accept their community and treat them more equally. Gilbert Baker designed and stitched together the first rainbow flag, which he unveiled at a pride parade in 1978. However, the first legal same-sex marriage was performed on May 17, 2004 in Massachusetts which was the first state to legalize same sex marriage. 20489261 https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1390000754 2021-04-07 04:36:51 UTC https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1390000754 The people involved with this issue were Latin Americans and other foreign immigrants who moved to the US for a equal opportunity to make money yet the government treated them as though they were far from equal to white Americans so they didn’t get the same benefits and working conditions. 20489261 https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1390006300 2021-04-07 04:40:26 UTC https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1390006300 One of the most known movements that supported equal rights to different ethnicity was the Chicano Movement. This movement not only changed laws and working conditions for Mexican workers. It gave Mexican-Americans a voice politically and made everyone aware of how serious the discrimination was and unfair laws were. obviously there were many more protests and campaigns to gain rights for these minorities. 20489261 https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1390017592 2021-04-07 04:47:38 UTC https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1390017592 Cesar Chavez was a big activist in 1966, he led the UFW on a 300-mile march to Sacramento, the state capital, to bring the state farm workers’ problems to the attention of the entire country. The strike finally ended in 1970 when the grape growers agreed to give the pickers better pay and benefits. Other jobs then started giving the minorities better and more equal opportunities. 20489261 https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1390032754 2021-04-07 04:56:28 UTC https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1390032754 Women were being discriminated against based on their gender by not being paid and treated as well as men even though they were doing the same jobs as them. 20489261 https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1394131156 2021-04-08 02:54:53 UTC https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1394131156 In response, women had to stand up and protest showing the inequalities they were faced. Employees would show their wages and women were always making less then men for the same amount of work. 20489261 https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1394135097 2021-04-08 02:56:38 UTC https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1394135097 In 1963 the Equal Pay Act was brought to life which was a stepping stone for women's equality when it come to equal pay. The act made it so women and men who were doing the same work would have the same wages and ultimately start to be seen more as equals in the work force. 20489261 https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1394146443 2021-04-08 03:01:57 UTC https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1394146443 The LGBT community had a hard time being excepted by society and being allowed to marry heterosexually. Marriage laws also prevented people of different ethnicities to get married. Some believed these situations were caused by mental illness. 20489261 https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1394158447 2021-04-08 03:07:51 UTC https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1394158447 A event that occurred was the stonewall riots which were cause by law enforcement raided a gay club called the Stonewall Inn. This lead to six days of rioting and fighting between the police and supports and members of the gay community. This event really is what pushed gay rights to be a big part of civil rights. 20489261 https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1394202135 2021-04-08 03:28:39 UTC https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1394202135 People started to support the marriage between same sex and races but getting them equal rights has been something the US has been fighting for up to todays day in age. In 1973, Maryland became the first state to create a law that explicitly defines marriage as a union between a man and woman. It wasn't until 2015 that same sex marriage was legal in all 50 states. 20489261 https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1394211888 2021-04-08 03:33:23 UTC https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1394211888 African Americans were the most affected by this topic because while everyone claimed that while it was separate it was still equal this was far from true. White people had much more privilege's. 20489261 https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1394228903 2021-04-08 03:41:54 UTC https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1394228903 African Americans recognized the injustices they were faced with through this act which inspired another supreme court case called Brown vs the board of education. 20489261 https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1394246058 2021-04-08 03:51:06 UTC https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1394246058 The segregation by race ended up bringing colored people of all classes together because there wasn't a separation between classes. Lots of people got involved and started marching and protesting in order to get equality for African Americans. 20489261 https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1394249441 2021-04-08 03:53:11 UTC https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1394249441 African Americans, LGBT, and other minorities faced struggles trying to get housing and jobs based on their race and sexual orientation, this was not seen as wrong because there were no laws in place saying otherwise so many of these people struggled. 20489261 https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1394257232 2021-04-08 03:58:14 UTC https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1394257232 People and organizations began to recognize this as a problem and pushed to get a law put in place to protect these people from being discriminated against. Organizations like NAACP lobbied for the fair housing act. 20489261 https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1394260777 2021-04-08 04:00:39 UTC https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1394260777 In 1968 the Fair Housing Act was put into place which didn't allow any discrimination when it came to selling or renting a home based on sexual orientation, race, and religion which was a huge step forward. 20489261 https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1394270372 2021-04-08 04:07:02 UTC https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1394270372 African Americans were being treated "equally" due to the separate but equal rule. This kept the blacks separated from the whites even in schools which put the African American kids a disadvantage because they didn't have what the white kids did. 20489261 https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1394279512 2021-04-08 04:12:48 UTC https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1394279512 The case in the end ruled in Browns favor stating racial separation in schools is unconstitutional. This gave all children in the US an equal opportunity to get a good education for the first time. 20489261 https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1394284142 2021-04-08 04:15:24 UTC https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1394284142 African American began to vocalize and enforce the injustices that being separated on transportation services because that right wasn't being given to them. 20489261 https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1394288019 2021-04-08 04:17:55 UTC https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1394288019 White people found a way to continue excluding blacks from voting without it being considered against the law. These were known as Jim Crow Laws, some were making people take a literacy test, property ownership, and even moral tests which ultimately continued keeping blacks from voting even though they had the right legally. 20489261 https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1394292565 2021-04-08 04:20:34 UTC https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1394292565 The Civil Rights Movement started in order to fight and protest for rights to vote for the minorities in America along with other civil rights that needed fighting for. 20489261 https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1394297478 2021-04-08 04:23:33 UTC https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1394297478 The Civil Rights Act in 1957 created the division in the department of justice. Then more Civil Rights were passed in 1960 and 1964 which first created a registration for voting and then advanced to not being allowed to discriminate against some. Lastly, after MLK died The Voting Rights Act which prohibited racial discrimination. 20489261 https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1394301392 2021-04-08 04:25:54 UTC https://padlet.com/20489261/9g64dlibdcrt8fxe/wish/1394301392