POLI 2051 Chapter : Civil Rights Ch 5
Document Summary
Civil rights are related to the duties of citizenship and the opportunities for participation in civic life that the government is obliged to protect. These rights are based on the expectation of equality under the law: civil rights=govt steps in and provides you equal protection under the law. Only govt can deny you a civil liberty. Civil liberties are designed to protect you from government. Legal restrictions on civil rights: slavery, missouri compromise (1820), banned slavery in the territories north of the southern border of missouri, but kept the lands of the louisiana purchase free, compromise of 1850, allowed territories captured in the. After reconstruction: ends in 1876, south no longer under military occupation, klan violence increases and the presence of the klan is evident in private and govt agencies throughout the south and even in some. Jim crow laws: enforced segregation of whites and blacks in all public places, plessy v. ferguson 1896, separate but equal is ok.
