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Tuesday, April 17, 2018
Civil Rights
The Civil Rights movement in the United States has sought to protect numerous groups from discriminaiton and lack of Due Process throughout U.S. History. Listed below are some of the groups that have sought relief from discrimination through the Supreme Court. Next to each listed group is the number of students that may select that group. Once you have selected a group research a law that has either imposed discrimination upon that group or freed them from it. You may not choose the same piece of legislation as a classmate. Give a 50-100 word synopsis of the law, the year it was passed, and the effect of that legislation.
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The 19th Amendment was passed in 1920 following World War I and granted women the right to vote in federal elections. It took over 60 years to have all states ratify the 19th Amendment, with Mississippi last in 1984. However, this was a huge milestone in progress for women's history. Universal suffrage helped to open up further discussion of feminism in the United States, eventually prompting women to enter the workforce and lead lives independent from men.
ReplyDeleteRendon Reinarz
Period 5
Disabled
ReplyDeleteIn Bragdon v. Abbott (1998), the main issue that went around the Supreme Court was whether HIV is a disability and whether reproduction was a major life activity under the ADA. The decision of the case ruled for this issue to be true, and that HIV would qualify Abbott to claim protection under the act. The reason was to eliminate discrimination towards people with disabilities in the workplace, public areas and by government corporations.
Raoof Ali
Period 5
The Chinese Exclusion Act was passed by the US Congress and President Chester A. Arthur in 1882. It was the first significant law that restricted immigration into the US of an ethnic working group, specifically suspending immigration of Chinese laborers for 10 years. This legislation was largely caused by the widespread anti-Chinese movement in California in the second half of the 19th century and had major impact on the Chinese communities and immigrants. The decreasing numbers of Chinese immigrants and Chinese Americans fleeing from the US due to the anti-Chinese movement are some of the effects of the act.
ReplyDelete-Anne Dang, 4th period
African Americans
ReplyDeleteThe “Jim Crow” laws were established in the South in the beginning in the late 19th century. This law excluded blacks from going to the same public facilities as whites, live in same towns or go to the same schools. “Jim crow” also made laws so in the south the blacks would have to pass a literacy test to vote. This was a setback for African American rights as it restricted their rights.
Michael Chan 4th period
In the court case Michigan v Bay Mills , a federally recognized Indian tribe with a reservation located in northern Michigan, opened a small casino in the town of Vanderbilt, Michigan, on lands purchased with funds from this trust. The state of Michigan sued for closure of the casino by claiming that the Bay Mills casino violated state gaming laws, as well as various provisions of its Tribal-State compact. The court held that Indian tribes have sovereign immunity that can only be revoked by Congress with a 5-4 majority.
ReplyDelete-Rithvik Bommareddy, 4th Period
The Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 declared that discrimination based on pregnancy or the possibility of pregnancy was a discrimination against sex and women. It mandates that employers provide the same benefits to women at any stage of pregnancy, delivery, or recovery from delivery when they are medically unable to work and also just the need to take care of the child in the early stages of birth. Women missing work during and after pregnancy was a major source of discrimination whenever hiring a women, and this law helped end that prejudice.
ReplyDeleteLauren Chamberlin
Period 5
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 ended segregation in public places, essentially. It was passed during the heart of the Civil Rights Movement going on in the United States. It also banned employment discrimination if it was based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. Originally, it was proposed by John F. Kennedy, but it faced so much opposition that it was not actually signed in as a law until Lyndon B. Johnson was in office.
ReplyDeleteAnna Mayzenberg
5th Period
Women
ReplyDeleteThe pice of legislation I selected is Title IX of the Education Amendments. This legislation, signed into law in 1972, "prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in any federally funded education program or activity." This law is very important for not only women’s rights, but for everyone as it generalized the banning on discrimination based on gender to all genders within educational programs that accept money from the federal government. In addition to this basis, Title IX also has implications on sexual assault cases within educational programs and the availability of women’s sports teams in federally funded schools to match those of the men’s teams.
Radhika Daru
Period 5
African Americans
ReplyDeleteThe Voting Rights Act of 1965, was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson. It was aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that disallowed African Americans from being able to vote as guaranteed under the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Since then, the Voting Rights Act has been amended to also include the protection of voting rights for non-English speaking American citizens.
Pamela Gheriafi
Period 4
Asians
ReplyDeleteThe 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act upheld the national origins quota system, which limited the number of immigrants allowed to enter the U.S. annually by country. It ended the Asian exclusion from immigrating to the U.S. and created a preference system which determined eligibility by skill sets and family ties in the U.S. The Act eliminated laws preventing Asians from naturalizing, got rid of the Asiatic Barred Zone, and allotted each Asian country a minimum of 100 visas annually. However, the law allotted Asian quotas based on race rather than nationality. This allowed persons of Asian parentage and any nationality to receive visas under the generic quota for the “Asian Pacific Triangle,” which ended up limiting Asian immigration.
Jun Hin Loi
Period 4
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ReplyDeleteSydney Sandford
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African-Americans
The fugitive slave act originally created in 1793 and then strengthened in 1850 oppressed African-American slaves and freed people. The law states that if a slave decided to run away especially to the North that they can be brought back to their "owner" with proper proof. At first the law was quite weak due to the North not cooperating in the discraceful hunting of people. Then once the southern slave owners caught on to anti-slavery Quakers helping provide passage they demanded congress to strengthen the law. Not only would slaves be returned but the people who helped would be imprisoned. After the passage of the new law officers would capture anyone thought to be a slave, even free black men. Once the Emancipation Proclamation was passed the law was deserted.
Brown vs. Board of Education was created in 1954 and ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional. This landmark court case establish the precedent that separate-but-equal does not truly mean equality at all. Unfortunately, this decision sparked resistance in the South as they continued to segregate schools.
ReplyDeleteJenina Bianty
5th
Native Americans
ReplyDeleteThe Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968 granted Native Americans, for the first time, full access to the United States Bill of Rights. This guaranteed them the right to freedom of religion, the right of habeas corpus--or justification of lawful imprisonment, and the right to a trial by jury (among others). The idea behind the extension of the Bill of Rights to Native American communities was that it would protect individuals from potential abuses within tribal lands and pave the way for formal trial courts that would extend the sovereignty of Native American reservations to include legislative authority.
Feba Abraham
Period 4
Cassie De Leon 4th period
ReplyDeleteFor those that are Disabled
The Americans with Disabilities Act became law in 1990. It is a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities in all areas of public life, such as those open to the general public. The goal was to make sure that people with disabilities have the same rights and opportunities as everyone else. It is divided in to five titles that relate to different areas of public life.
Elderly
ReplyDeleteThe Age Discrimination in Employment Act prohibits employers from discriminating against those who are 40 years old or older. Although, this act does not protect those younger than the age of 40. The Age Discrimination in Employment Act was passed in 1967. The law protects job applicants and those already employed.
Ambareen Virani
Period 4
The segregation and disenfranchisement laws known as "Jim Crow" represented a formal, codified system of racial apartheid that dominated the American South for three quarters of a century beginning in the 1890s. The laws affected almost every aspect of daily life, mandating segregation of schools, parks, libraries, drinking fountains, restrooms, buses, trains, and restaurants. "Whites Only" and "Colored" signs were constant reminders of the enforced racial order. These laws greatly discriminated against African Americans and were removed in 964
ReplyDeleteAbraham Pazhoor Period 4
Asians
ReplyDeleteThe Immigration Act of 1924 (The Johnson-Reed Act), is an act that limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States. It provided immigration visas to two percent of the total number of people of each nationality in the United States, however it completely excluded immigrants from Asia. The uncertainty generated over national security during World War I made it possible for Congress to pass this legislation.
Michelle Phan
5th period
African Americans
ReplyDeleteThe 14th Amendment adopted in 1868 which granted all individuals, including former slaves, born in the U.S. or naturalized, a citizen. This also required that all citizens be granted equal protection of the law. Prohibited any state from creating laws abridging these privileges or immunities or deny them life liberty or pursuit of happiness without due process of law. The amendment was a response to issues following the Civil War in which African Americans, free, runaway, and enslaved, fought and were treated worse than their white counterparts in segregated regiments. The amendment was bitterly fought by former states of the confederacy but were forced to ratify it in order to regain representation in Congress.
Madison Panetti
Period 5
ReplyDeleteElderly
The Older Americans Act of 1965 was an act that was the first to give the elderly comprehensive services. The act created the National Aging Network. The National Aging Network provides funding for health promotion, community-based services, and elder rights program. The act gave needed support to the elderly that wasn't previously being given and created multiple other programs that still help the elderly today.
Raina Abraham
5th period
Elderly
ReplyDeleteThe Elder Justice Act was passed on March 23, 2010 by Barack Obama, all due to the frequent cases where seniors are abused in facilities and agencies. The act was passed to protect the elderly from elder abuse financially, emotionally, and physically by providing federal resources to prevent, detect, treat, understand, intervene in and, where appropriate, prosecute elder abuse neglect and exploitation. The effect the law had on the elderly was to stop others from committing crimes and treating the elderly unfairly.
Jono Joseph
5th
Native Americans
ReplyDeleteThe American Indian Religious Freedom Act of 1978 allowed American Indians, Eskimos, Aleuts and Native Hawaiians to practice their native religion without discrimination and protect and preserve their traditional cultural and religious rights. These rights include access to sacred sites, giving back sacred objects held in museums, freedom to worship through ceremonial and traditional rites, including within prisons, and use and possession of objects considered sacred. The effect of the law was allowing natives to worship freely just like any other religion in the United States.
Natalie Dye, 5th Period
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ReplyDeleteWomen
ReplyDeleteThe Equal pay act prohibited wage disparity based on sex. This act was signed by John F Kennedy in 1963. Companies used to discriminate on women by paying them less wage. However, the Equal pay act required companies to pay men and women same wages for jobs that require the same levels of skills, effort and responsibility. Although the act require you to pay the same wage, many companies still pay wages differently for women. The bureau of Labor and statics shows that regardless of race, the amount made per week is lower than men.
Ayana Mathew
4th period
Native Americans
ReplyDeleteThe Tribal Law and Order Act of 2010 signed in by President Obama helped free Native Americans, specifically those on specified tribal territory, from discrimination within the judicial branch of government. By allowing tribal courts to extend sentences of criminal charges committed on Native American grounds. Previously, tribal courts were limited in terms of the punishment they could hand out in criminal cases, giving outsiders the impression they could commit crimes with much lighter punishments than on regular American soil.
Kale Wicks
Period 4
Disabled/Elderly
ReplyDeleteVoting Accessibility for the ELDERLY and HANDICAPPED was established in 1984. It requires polling places across the United States to be physically accessible to people with disabilities for federal elections. When there is not an accessible location to serve as a polling/voting place, a political subdivision must provide an alternate means of casting a ballot on the day of the election. This law also requires states to make available registration and voting aids for disabled and elderly voters, including information by TTYs (also known as TDDs) or similar devices.
Matthew Whaley
Period 4
Disabled
ReplyDeleteThe Architectural Barriers Act of 1968 (ABA) put into effect after September 1969 requires that all buildings, architectural works, designs, and leases within certain federal funds must be completely accessible by handicapped persons. By doing so, Lyndon Johnson addressed the difficulties disabled persons had to hurdle over simply to enter most buildings.
Jackson Stanley
Period 5
Asians
ReplyDeleteThe California Alien Land Law of 1913, also known as the Webb-Haney Act, placed restrictions upon those born out of the U.S. to have any rights to land. This act affected mostly the Chinese, Indians, and Japanese. It passed thirty-five to two in the Senate and seventy-two to three in the Assembly and was passed in 1913. It was made to discourage the immigration of people from the continent of Asia and it was heavily enforced. It showed the discrimination towards the people of Asia from U.S. officials at that time. The law was challenged by many Asian countries and Japan had a big problem stating that it was unfair and it hurt the relations between the 2 countries.
Naomi Samuel
Period 5
Native Americans
ReplyDeleteThe Indian Removal Act was passed by Congress on May 28, 1830. The law forced Native Americans to move from their land to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their ancestral homelands. There was major opposition from the Native Americans but support from it in Georgia, which was the biggest state at the time. Andrew Jackson said that the demise of tribes was inevitable, pointing to the advancement of settled life. Cries of lost Native American culture and sentimental longing for simpler times were dismissed and the natives were forced to move.
Josie Henry
4th period
African Americans
ReplyDeleteThe Fair Housing Act in Title VII of Civil Rights of 1968 prohibits discrimination in the sale, buying or renting housing because of race, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin. The Act was brought up in 1959 when Chicago was named the most residentially segregated large city. To protest the Civil Rights Movement began marches in the whites-only areas in Chicago but mobs of angry whites attacked them. Which continued into the month of July. In the end of August, city leaders met with Dr.King and he agreed to the program of fair housing.
Erin Randle
Period 5
Native Americans
ReplyDeleteThe Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 requires American Indian children be placed with extended family members, other tribal members, or other Native American families for foster-care or adoption purposes. The law protects the tribes' interest in retaining custody of their children. Research found that 25%–35% of all Native children were being removed; of these, 85% were placed outside of their families and communities—even when fit and willing relatives were available. Although progress has been made as a result of ICWA, out-of-home placement still occurs more frequently for Native children than it does for the general population.
Janice Wilson
Period 5
Women
ReplyDeleteCleveland Board of Education v. LaFleur, 414 U.S. 632. The Court finds unconstitutional a Cleveland School Board rule, requiring women to take unpaid maternity leaves after the first trimester of pregnancy because of a conclusive presumption that pregnant women are no longer able to work. The Court further invalidates a section of the rule making a teacher ineligible to return to work until her child was three-months old.
Epstein Jacob
Period 4
Disabled
ReplyDeleteArchitectural Barriers Act of 1968. This piece of legislation, which was in turn signed by President Lyndon Baines Johnson, provided that buildings constructed from government funds must be accessible to the public and that they must have provisions for the disabled. A main success of this was requiring buildings have disabled people's bathrooms and that construction following the date must be compliant with its prescribed standards. The Department of Defense, Department of HUD, and the Postal Service all had special provisions in the act.
Alan Cummins
4th
Elizabeth Stech
ReplyDeletePeriod 4
Elderly
Nursing home law in particular is governed by the 1987 Nursing Home Reform Act (NHRA). The NHRA is a set of laws that establish the respective standards of care for assisted living facilities and nursing homes. The main purpose of the act is to ensure quality care in nursing homes by protecting elders from neglect, abuse and mistreatment. The NHRA further requires that certain services must be provided to residents in nursing homes.
Elderly
ReplyDeleteBecause of frequent cases with abused seniors in facilities and agencies, the Elder Justice Act was passed on March 23, 2010 by Barack Obama. It was passed to protect the elderly from elder abuse financially, emotionally, and physically. The Elder Justice Act provides federal resources to prevent, detect, treat, understand, intervene in and, where appropriate, prosecute elder abuse neglect and exploitation. The effect the law had on the elderly was to stop others from committing crimes and treating the elderly unfairly.
Sainath Krishnamurthy
Period 4
The Disabled
ReplyDeleteThe Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as Amended (Rehab Act) prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in programs conducted by federal agencies, in programs receiving federal financial assistance, in federal employment and in the employment practices of federal contractors. Therefore, programs receiving federal funds may not discriminate against those with disabilities based on their disability status.
Zoheb Khawaja 5th period
Asian
ReplyDeleteSituated in the early years of the Cold War, the debate over the revision of U.S. immigration law demonstrated a division between those interested in the relationship between immigration and foreign policy, and those linking immigration to concerns over national security. The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 upheld the national origins quota system established by the Immigration Act of 1924, reinforcing this controversial system of immigrant selection. It also ended Asian exclusion from immigrating to the United States and introduced a system of preferences based on skill sets and family reunification. While the act helped encourage asian immigrantion, there was still a restriction on how many asians could immigrate. The act was the first step to help reduce asian discrimination.
Kriti Bansal
Period 5
Woman
ReplyDelete1987 - Johnson v. Santa Clara County
In 1978, an Affirmative Action Plan for hiring and promoting minorities and women was voluntarily adopted by respondent Santa Clara County Transportation Agency. The plan allowed the agency to consider gender when making promotions to positions within any traditionally segregated job classification in which women had been significantly underrepresented. The agency promoted Diane Joyce to the position of a road dispatcher, which was classified as a road-maintenance worker, in accordance with the plan. Joyce was selected over Paul Johnson (plaintiff), who had a slightly higher score based on his qualifications and interview. The classification of road-maintenance worker had a significant under representation of female workers.Johnson sued, alleging that the agency had violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act by promoting a less qualified employee based on gender. The trial court found in favor of Johnson which helped women to not be discriminated from higher position jobs and men to no be discriminated from lower position jobs.
Jubin Joseph
Period 5
Women
ReplyDeleteIn 1973, in a court case named Roe v. Wade, Congress ruled that the Constitution protects women's right to end a pregnancy early, even if the pregnancy is not causing harm to the mother. It therefore made abortion legal in the United States. Despite the difference of opinions on the morality of this process, it can be agreed on that it did increase the freedom of women. It allowed them to relatively equal to men if a woman chose not to have a baby and instead wanted to pursue a career or some other opportunities that might otherwise be difficult if she had a baby.
Julianna Hastreiter
Period 5
Luke Matthews - Period 5
ReplyDeleteDisabled Americans-
The Curb Ramps and Pedestrian Crossings Under Title II of the ADA is part of Title II of the ADA as well as in Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. This mandated that curb ramps would be required for any major pedestrian crossing. This was a small but also important step into allowing equality for all Americans. This would make the public right-of-way easily accessible to everybody.
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ReplyDeleteAfrican Americans
ReplyDeleteBlack codes were restrictive laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans and ensure their availability as a cheap labor force after slavery was abolished during the Civil War. These laws were passed between 1865 and 1866. Even though the Union won which granted over 4 million slaves freedom, southerners still considered them slaves. Under black codes, many states required blacks to sign yearly labor contracts; if they refused, they risked being arrested, fined and forced into unpaid labor.
Cameron Walker
Period 4
The Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act provides for equitable and impartial relief operations, without discrimination on the grounds of race, color, religion, nationality, sex, age, or economic statues. It was signed into law on November 23, 1988. This act constitutes the authority for most Federal disaster response activities especially as they pertain to FEMA programs.
ReplyDeleteAlexis Chan
Period 5
Disabled
ReplyDeleteThe Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) governs how states and public agencies provide early intervention, special education and related services to more than 6.5 million eligible infants, toddlers, children and youth with disabilities. The law requires public schools to make available to all eligible children with disabilities a “free appropriate public education” in the least restrictive environment appropriate to their individual needs. IDEA requires public school systems to develop appropriate Individualized Education Programs (IEP's) for each child. The law has been reauthorized many times and has expanded the scope of services to include services for infants and toddlers.
Shweta Mathews
Period 4
African Americans
ReplyDeleteThe Supreme Court case NAACP v. Alabama in 1958 protected the right to assemble peacefully, regarding the Montgomery bus boycotts in 1955. The court decided that the NAACP did not have to reveal its membership list and thus subject its members to harassment.
Steve raju 5th period
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) represents the pinnacle of the equal education movement. IDEA has roots in the same civil rights movement that gave rise to Brown v. Bd. of Education. It is a four-part piece of legislation that ensures students with a disability are provided with Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) that is tailored to their individual needs. From 1975 to 1997, IDEA was known as the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (EHA). In 1997, Congress reauthorized EHA and changed the title to IDEA. It was amended in 2004 and updated in 2006 and 2011.
ReplyDeleteBryce Del'Homme
Period 5
Asians
ReplyDeleteUnited States v. Wong Kim Art
Supreme Court rules person born in the United States of Chinese parents is of American nationality by birth.A child born in the United States, of parents of Chinese descent, who, at the time of his birth, are subjects of the Emperor of China, but have a permanent domicile and residence in the United States, and are there carrying on business, and are not employed in any diplomatic or official capacity under the Emperor of China, becomes at the time of his birth a citizen of the United States, by virtue of the first clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution.Chinese-American cook Wong Kim Ark, who was born in San Francisco in 1873,[7] had been denied re-entry to the United States after a trip abroad, under a law restricting Chinese immigration and prohibiting immigrants from China from becoming naturalized U.S. citizens. He challenged the government's refusal to recognize his citizenship, and the Supreme Court ruled in his favor, holding that the citizenship language in the Fourteenth Amendment encompassed the circumstances of his birth and could not be limited in its effect by an act of Congress.
Argued: March 5, 8, 1897
Decided: March 28, 1898
Jyotis Joy
5th period
Disabled
ReplyDeleteThe Rehabilitation act prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in programs of federal agencies, in programs receiving Federal financial assistance, in Federal employment, and in the employment practices of Federal contractors. Employment discrimination is determined under the Rehabilitiation act is the same as title one of the Americans with disabilities act. This act was passed in 1973. The effect was the once completely advantages people without disabilities were brought to a more even playing field with the disabled people, there was better chances for those with disabilities to compete for employment.
Age Discrimination Act of 1975
ReplyDeleteOften confused with the the ADEA, or used interchangeably because both laws prohibit age discrimination. However, the laws are very different. Although the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA) was enacted prior to the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, the Age Discrimination Act does not modify or amend the ADEA. It does not target older Americans like the ADEA does, but it protects age in general by not defining an age group. This means that individuals of various ages are protected from discrimination.
Dominic Kochen
5th Period
These Regulations have now been replaced by the Equality Act 2010
ReplyDeleteThe Regulations came into force on 1st October 2006. These Regulations apply to all employment and vocational training (employees, prospective employees and trainees). It is unlawful to discriminate, harass or victimise job applicants, employees or trainees on the grounds of age (young or old). This would be when an employer acts differently upon one worker than another because they are older than another and is prohibited.
Lauryn Weller
4th Period
Asians
ReplyDeleteKorematsu v US (1944)
This was a supreme court case that eventually led to the internment of the Japanese. It ruled that it was constitutional to place the Japanese people into internment camps regardless of citizenship. The Supreme Court has not still overturned this decision yet.
Bryan Ta
4th Period
Asians
ReplyDeleteWar Relocation Authority was an act passed in 1942 legalizing the relocation of Japanese Americans along the west coast to be put in internment camps. It was held up throughout world war 2 and severely suppressed the freedom and violated the rights of Asian Americans in a feeble attempt to comfort the rest of Americas citizens following Pearl Harbor.
Mitchell Arwine period 4
Disabled
ReplyDeleteAir carrier access act
It prohibits discrimination against the disabled at airports and other foreign air carriers against those with physical or mental impairments. It only applies to regular and frequent air carrier serves to the public for hire. If someone doesn't follow this act they can file a complaint to the US department of transportation or taking it to the federal court.
Sarah Sultan period 4
Yash Parmar
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Elderly
the Older Worker Benefit Protection Act of 1967 calls for all employers to give full time employees access to benefits regardless of the age of the person. This issue was given further solidification after Ohio vs Betts after he was denied benefits for equal price as the younger workers.
African American
ReplyDeleteThe Naturalization Act of 1870 was passed by Congress. While the 1870 Act ushered in a right for blacks to naturalize, overall the Act held only limited promise of equality in the United States; it provided only for the naturalization of whites and persons of “African descent” and continued to exclude Asians and Native Americans from citizenship. Also, the law became "symbolic for blacks as their claims to legal citizenship were seemingly trumped by social and political subordination and physical backlash".
Ashel Jaimon
Period 4
Elderly
ReplyDeleteElder Law encompasses all legal issues related to aging. The Older Americans Act (OAA), originally enacted in 1965 by President Lyndon B. Johnson, is the most significant elder legislation in the United StatesElder Law refers to the area of legal practice pertaining to issues that affect older people (usually those over 60 years of age). The three primary focuses of elder law include estate planning; medicaid, disability and long-term care; and guardianship.
Sophie Wedgeworth
Period 5
Native American
ReplyDeleteThe landmark decision in the Cherokee Nation v. Georgia was one that had significant impacts on the native americans as a whole. The argument against the natives where that they were considered a "foreign entity." This voided all of the Cherokee in the sense of law and rights. This discrimonatry case took place in 1831. The effect was the institutional silencing of the native people.
Joel Thomas
5th period
Women
ReplyDelete1932, The National Recovery Act
Was basically a law to force women out of government jobs. This law forbade more than one family member from holding a government job, and it was effective in removing from the workplace women who had filled many jobs while men were fighting in World War II. As men returned to government jobs, women were expelled.
Women
ReplyDeleteThe Women's Educational Equity Act (WEEA) of 1974 is one of the several landmark laws passed by the United States Congress outlining federal protections against the gender discrimination of women in education. WEEA was introduced in the United States House of Representatives. WEEA was intended to combat sex-role stereotyping in elementary and secondary schools.
Tanmay Shah
Period 4
African Americans
ReplyDeleteOn January 1, 1863, The Emancipation Proclamation was passed by President Lincoln's executive order. It changed the legal status of over 3 million enslaved blacks in the south to be free from slavery. This was a huge achievement in the movement for African American rights.
Tom Joseph
Period 4
The Architectural Barriers Act (ABA) is the act that required that buildings that were designed, constructed, or altered with Federal funds even the ones leased by the Federal agency’ to adhere to the Federal standards for physical accessibility. The requirements is mainly about the architectural standards in new and altered buildings and in newly leased facilities. They didn’t discuss about the activities held in the so called “buildings and facilities.”
ReplyDeleteBill bradley period 4
Women
ReplyDeleteThe Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) guarantees an equal opportunity to get credit and stops creditors from discriminating against credit applicants based on their sex, familial status, race, religion, ethnicity, age, or financially assisted people. This act supports women and helps lessen the discrimination towards them as it allows them to obtain credit without being hindered by personal biases of the creditor.
Mohammad Ejaz
4th period.
Stephen Kelly
ReplyDeletePeriod 4
Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967
US labor law that forbids employment discrimination against anyone at least 40 years of age in the United States (see 29 U.S.C. § 631). In 1967, the bill was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson. The ADEA prevents age discrimination and provides equal employment opportunity under conditions that were not explicitly covered in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.[1] It also applies to the standards for pensions and benefits provided by employers, and requires that information concerning the needs of older workers be provided to the general public. It protected those aged 40 and over but does not protect those under the age of 40.
Gender Identity Discrimination
ReplyDeleteExecutive Order 13672, signed by U.S. President Barack Obama on July 21, 2014, extended protection against discrimination in hiring and employment to additional classes. It prohibited discrimination in the civilian federal workforce on the basis of gender identity and in hiring by federal contractors on the basis of both sexual orientation and gender identity. It was made as an amend to two earlier anti discriminatory executive orders, one made by Nixon and the other by LBJ. Obama had mentioned a desire to make such an executive order during his 2008 campaign.
Robert Slaybaugh
4th Period
Elderly
ReplyDeleteThe 2009 SSL Senior Alert Program creates a program for notification of a missing senior adult. According to the bill, a senior adult is someone who is above 60 years of age. The bill also provides that no police or sheriff's department shall establish or maintain any policy that requires a waiting period before a missing senior adult report will be accepted. The system is similar to the amber alert system that helps children. The act creates and helps open investigations for the elderly if they somehow become missing.
Isabel Zhou
4th Period
Native American
ReplyDeleteThe religious freedom act of 1978 was to protect and preserve the traditional religious rights of the native Americans. The following rights are included: access to sacred sights, freedom to worship through ceremonial and traditional rites, and more. The effect of this was moving to preserve more of the Native American culture. This stopped the forceful assimilation of them into American religious ways and allows them to practice freely.
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