3.11
Government Responses
to Social Movements
Standard 3C
Standard 3C
Public policy promoting civil rights is influenced by citizen-state interactions and constitutional interpretation over time.
Learning Objective
Learning Objective
Explain how the government has responded to social movements.
ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE
The government can respond to social movements through court rulings and/or policies.
Brown v. Board of Education (1954), which declared that race-based school segregation violates the Fourteenth Amendment’s equal protection clause
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972
Review
Review
Carey LaManna 3.11
Auxiliary Resources
Auxiliary Resources
“Separate is not equal” was not first said in the Brown v. Board of Education ruling
School Segregation and Brown v. Board (Crash Course)