AP U.S. Government and Politics / Unit 3: Civil Liberties and Civil Rights
3.10 Social Movements and Equal Protection
Notes
- Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause.
- The civil rights movement, women's rights movement, LGBTQ+ rights movement.
- Brown v. Board of Education (1954): segregated schools are unconstitutional ("separate but equal" rejected).
- Letter from Birmingham Jail (1963).
Practice
Brown v. Board of Education overturned:
School segregation.
Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail defended:
Unjust laws.
The Equal Protection Clause is in the:
1868.
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