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civil disobedience: opposing a law one considers unjust by peacefully disobeying it and accepting the punishment
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civil rights act of 1964: banned discrimination in public acomodations, prohibited discrimination in any federally assisted program, outlawed discrimination in most employment; enlarged federal powers to protect voting rights and to speed school desegregation
president: lyndon johnson
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civil rights act of 1965 or voting rights act: require registration of all eligible voters in federal, state and local elections in areas of discrimination or where 50% or less of voting-age residents were registered to vote-expired
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de facto segregation: racial segregation that occurs in schools, not as a result of the law, but as a result of patterns of residential settlement
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de jure segregation: racial segregation that is required by law
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racial profiling: when law enforcement authorities are more likely to stop and question people because of their race or ethnicity
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reasonableness standard: says that when the govt. treats some classes of people differently from others (ex: applying rape laws to men but not women) the different treatment must be reasonable and not arbitrary
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scrutiny standard: says that some instances of drawing distinctions between different groups of people (ex: treating whites and blacks differently) are inherently suspect so the court will subject them to ensure that they are clearly necessary to attain a legit state goal
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separate but equal doctrine: the doctrine established by Plessy v Ferguson (1896) that African Americans could constitutionally be kept in separate but equal facilities
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zone of privacy: an area where you would be granted privacy (ex. bathroom, inside your home) status determines the size of your zone of privacy; celebs and people in the view of the public have little privacy, protected from Gov. intrusion
