In this module we are going to be looking at three main ideas: 1) How Americans have been concerned about protecting the
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In this module we are going to be looking at three main ideas:
1) How Americans have been concerned about protecting their Civil
Rights since the earliest days of the nation, 2) How those
protections have been enshrined in law and 3) How Civil Rights are
not always assured to all without protest and struggle. Even
with the Articles of Confederation, we can see that one commonality
that united the early and diverse Americans are a concern for their
rights and a desire to have them be explicitly assured. The
Articles of Confederation did this by creating a weak central
government that did not have the power to infringe on a citizen’s
rights. With the strengthening of the federal government with
the US Constitution, these rights had to be assured with the Bill
of Rights – the first ten amendments to the US Constitution.
But as we can see, there are more than just 10 Amendments. It
was not until the 13th Amendment that slavery was
outlawed and the 14thAmendment that former
African-American slaves were given equal protection under the
law. However, what “equal protection” meant had been debated
and practiced differently from state to state. The idea of
“separate but equal,” where African-American children would go to
separate public schools from white children but were proposed to
receive an equal education, emerged from. With this,
integration did not need to occur to be in compliance with the
Civil Rights granted from the 14th Amendment.
However, my question to you, now that you have done the reading
and watched this video, what were some of the problems with the
idea of “Separate but equal?” What were Chief Justice
Warren’s legal and sociological arguments against the old
separate-but-equal doctrine? Consider the past and present in your
discussion.
1) How Americans have been concerned about protecting their Civil
Rights since the earliest days of the nation, 2) How those
protections have been enshrined in law and 3) How Civil Rights are
not always assured to all without protest and struggle. Even
with the Articles of Confederation, we can see that one commonality
that united the early and diverse Americans are a concern for their
rights and a desire to have them be explicitly assured. The
Articles of Confederation did this by creating a weak central
government that did not have the power to infringe on a citizen’s
rights. With the strengthening of the federal government with
the US Constitution, these rights had to be assured with the Bill
of Rights – the first ten amendments to the US Constitution.
But as we can see, there are more than just 10 Amendments. It
was not until the 13th Amendment that slavery was
outlawed and the 14thAmendment that former
African-American slaves were given equal protection under the
law. However, what “equal protection” meant had been debated
and practiced differently from state to state. The idea of
“separate but equal,” where African-American children would go to
separate public schools from white children but were proposed to
receive an equal education, emerged from. With this,
integration did not need to occur to be in compliance with the
Civil Rights granted from the 14th Amendment.
However, my question to you, now that you have done the reading
and watched this video, what were some of the problems with the
idea of “Separate but equal?” What were Chief Justice
Warren’s legal and sociological arguments against the old
separate-but-equal doctrine? Consider the past and present in your
discussion.