AP American Government

Role of Federal Government and the Spending PowerThe continued fight for Equality

Birth of Civil Rights MovementWWII and the Great Migration (A. William Randolph)

Government sponsored discriminationThe NAACP and Thurgood Marshall

Sweat v. Painter (1950)McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents (1950)Brown v. Board of Education (1954)Brown II (1955)

The Civil Rights Movement to end Jim Crow The Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Martin Luther King

Federal Oversight of Elections15th AmendmentCivil Rights Act of 1957Voting Rights Act of 196524th Amendment (1964)

Private Business Discrimination and the new interpretation of “Commerce”

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)Civil Rights Act of 1964Katzenbach v. McClung (1964)Heart of Atlanta v. United States (1964)

Protection of Individual Civil Liberties

Religion, Rights of the Accused (Miranda), Death Penalty, Privacy (medical), self-defense, etc.

Impact of the Holocaust on American Jurisprudence

Attempt to fix economic inequalities in America – LBJ’s War on Poverty in The Great Society (growth of Social Security, Medicaid, education funding, affirmative action)