Makes people sympathetic to discrimination claims

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Questions

1. What basic protections did the Civil War Amendments introduce? How would life in America be different if these amendments had never been passed?

2. What are de jure and de facto segregation?

3. What did the US Supreme Court decide in Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. Board of Education?

4. How were blacks denied the right to vote and equal protection even after the Civil WarAmendments passed? When did that begin to change and why?

5. What is affirmative action?

6. How did civil rights protestors seek to bring discrimination to the public's attention? Why do you think their strategy worked?

7. To what extent do you think that the legacy of slavery and segregation is responsible for the inequalities that persist in America? How do you think the law should deal with those inequalities?

8. What civil rights challenges have Latinos, Asian Americans, and Native Americans faced?

9. What political and legal challenges do lesbians and gay men face?

10. What is the Americans with Disabilities Act?

11. Are there differences between discriminating on the basis of race or ethnicity anddiscriminating on the basis of gender, sexual orientation, or disability? What might be some legitimate reasons for treating people differently?

12. Would you favor the passage of an Equal Rights Amendment today? Are there contexts in which you think men and women should be treated differently?

13. Do you feel you have faced discrimination? How do you think the type of discrimination you have faced should be addressed in the law? (Remember this can include race, gender, age, religion, etc.)

14. What do you think makes people sympathetic to discrimination claims? What makes them more likely to dismiss them?

15. How are people of the same race, gender, sexual orientation, or disability as you portrayed in the media? Do you think they are portrayed realistically?

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