TOPIC 3.11 Government Responses to Social Movements
Public policy promoting civil rights is influenced by citizen-state interactions and constitutional interpretation over time.
Public policy promoting civil rights is influenced by citizen-state interactions and constitutional interpretation over time.
Explain how the government has responded to social movements.
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 § Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972 § The Voting Rights Act of 1965