- Types of Discrimination
- Unprotected Classifications
- Examples
- age, income, residence, sexual orientation, etc.
- Rational Basis
- the classification must be reasonable and related to a legitimate public purpose
- Quasi-protected Classifications
- Examples
- sex (gender), "legitimacy"
- Heightened Scrutiny
- the classification must directly accomplish an important public purpose
- Protected Classifications
- Examples
- race, religion, national origin
- Strict Scrutiny
- the classification must be absolutely necessary to a compelling interest
- Why are some classifications more protected than others?
Unprotected Class Quasi-
Protected ClassProtected Class Unprotected Rights Rational Basis Heightened Scrutiny Strict Scrutiny Quasi-protected Rights Heightened Scrutiny Heightened Scrutiny Strict Scrutiny Protected Rights Strict Scrutiny Strict Scrutiny
Strict Scrutiny
- African American Civil Rights Movement
- Pre-Civil War
- Missouri Compromise, 1820
- Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
- slavery in New York
- Civil War, 1861-65
- Emancipation Proclamation, 1863
- 13th Amendment (1865)--abolition
- "Black Codes"
- Reconstruction, 1866-77
- 14th Amendment (1868)--citizenship
- 15th Amendment (1870)--voting rights
- Civil rights laws
- 1866 Civil Rights Act
- 1870 Enforcement Act
- 1871 Anti-KKK Act
- 1875 Civil Rights Act
- 1876 presidential election
- R. B. Hayes (R) v. S. Tilden (D)
- Compromise of 1877
- Era of "Jim Crow," 1877-1965
- Legal and political abuses
- Segregation of the races
- 1883 Civil Rights cases
- Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
- "separate but equal"
- school segregation
- Lynching and race violence
- between 1882 and 1946, 4,715 recorded lynchings
- Marion, Indiana, 1930
- 1921 Tulsa riots
- Modern Civil Rights Movements
- Migration
- Marcus Garvey, UNIA
- W.E.B. DuBois, NAACP
- Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund
- Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
- Brown v. Board of Education II (1955)
- Martin Luther King, Jr., SCLC
- 1953 Baton Rouge bus boycott
- Rosa Parks and 1955-56 Montgomery Bus Boycott
- Sixties
- August 1963 March on Washington, D.C.
- November 1963 Assassination of John F. Kennedy
- 1964 Civil Rights Act
- Title I--voter registration discrimination
- Title II--public accommodations
- Title V--federal lawsuits against segregated schools
- Title VI--Powell Amendment and federal grants/contracts
- Title VII--Equal Employment Opportunity
- 1965 Voting Rights Act
- "Long, Hot Summers," 1964-67
- Kerner Commission, 1968
- April 1968 Assassination of M. L. King, Jr.
- 1968 Fair Housing Act
- Affirmative Action
- Equal Opportunity
- statutory basis
- permanent
- mandatory
- fines and quotas
- Affirmative Action
- executive order
- Executive Order 8802 (1941)
- Executive Order 10590 (1955)
- Executive Order 10925 (1961)
- Executive Order 11246 (1965)
- "Philadelphia Plan" 1970
- Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978)
- Wards Cove v. Antonio (1898)
- Adarand Constructors v. Pena (1995)
- Grutter v. Bollinger (2003)
- temporary
- voluntary
- goals and timetables
- Reparations?