PPT-1 GOALS OF CIVIL RIGHTS Equal treatment for all applicants and beneficiaries

Knowledge of rights and responsibilities Elimination of illegal barriers that prevent or deter people from receiving benefits Dignity and respect for all CACFP Civil Rights Training PowerPoint and Handout . Simple Justice . ~. Long Overdue. Roberta W. Francis, Co-Chair, ERA Task Force. National Council of Women’s Organizations. July 2015. www.equalrightsamendment.org. Section 1. :. . Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.. Struggling Toward Fairness. Chapter 5. Martin Luther King, Jr.. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.”. CIVIL RIGHTS. Policies designed to protect people against . arbitrary. or . discriminatory. treatment by government officials or individuals. DISCRIMINATION. RACIAL. GENDER. AGE. DISABILITY. SEXUAL ORIENTATION. Equal Protection Under the Law. The Civil War Amendments. Amendment 13 - Slavery Abolished. . 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their . The Movement 1950-1970. The Constitution. 13. th. Amendment (1865): . abolished slavery. 14. th. Amendment (1866): . Defines a citizen as anyone born or naturalized in the US. Equal protection of law clause. . Lecture 7F. Oyez, Oyez, Oyez!. Topics. What major events happened during the Progressive Era?. What role did the NAACP’s LDF play in litigating for equality? . What major events took place during the Civil . Letter from Birmingham Jail (1963): King’s gamble [Children]. FBI Memo, August 30. th. :". Negro . Question” . ". He stands head and shoulders above all other Negro leaders put together when it comes to influencing great masses of Negroes. . Part 1. Semester 2. Week 10. The start of Jim Crow laws. The supreme court had declared segregation to be constitutional in . Plessy v. Ferguson. in . 1896. The ruling had established the . “Separate-but-Equal”. Lowi. , Ginsberg, . Shepsle. , . Ansolabehere. Civil Rights. Chapter 5. Civil Liberties and Civil Rights Are Not the Same. Civil rights . are the legal or moral claims that citizens are entitled to make on the government. 1954-1975. 15.1. Origins of the Civil Rights Movement. Rosa Parks is fingerprinted by Dep. Sheriff D.H. Lackey in Montgomery, Ala., on Feb. 22, 1956, two months after she refused to give up her seat on a bus for a white passenger. Her action prompted the Montgomery bus boycott and sparked the civil rights movement.. - The goals were to:. desegregate schools, restaurants, buses and other public accommodations . to freely exercise the right to vote; . and to win protection against intimidation, harassment and violence — in general, to gain full and equal rights for African Americans. Section 2: Freedom of Religion. Section 3: Freedom of Speech and of the Press. Section 4: Freedom of Assembly and Petition. CHAPTERS 10-11 & 13. 2. Section 1: . Freedom and the Bill of Rights. Objectives:. 2016. WHAT ARE CIVIL RIGHTS?. The . nonpolitical rights of a citizen; . especially . ; . the rights of personal liberty guaranteed to United States citizens. by the 13. th. and 14. th. amendments to the Constitution and by acts of Congress. The Need For Change. - The white race deems itself to be the dominant race in this country…But in the view of the Constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant ruling class of citizens…Our Constitution is color blind…In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law….