ANT 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Free Soil Party, De Facto, Golf Cart
Document Summary
What are civil rights: civil rights are those protections by government power; things government must secure on behalf of its citizens civil liberties are the constitution"s protections from government power. Civil rights term emerged in 1760"s- no taxation without representation : modern day civil rights more expansive. Civil rights of african americans good test of madison"s ideas on democracy in america: african americans faced two major obstacles in securing rights, constitution > reserves authority to the states; separation of powers, politics based on self-interest. Reconstruction: civil war amendments, thirteenth- formal emancipation, fourteenth- granted citizenship, fifteenth- guaranteed the right to vote access to ballot box was limited even in union states. The civil rights movement: 1960s strategy shifted from litigation to mass protest: rosa parks and the montgomery bus boycott, sit-ins, collective action brought need for leadership > emergence of rev. Martin luther king (strategy of nonviolent resistance: birmingham demonstration, kennedy assassination.
