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involves efforts to bring about increased employment, promotion, or admission for members of groups who have suffered from previous discrimination.  

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were levied on the right to vote and often fell due at a time of year when poor sharecroppers had the least cash on hand.  

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America is heading toward a , a situation in which minority groups will outnumber Caucasians of European descent.  

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From 1920 to 1960 public policy toward women was dominated by .  

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In 1983, the Washington State Supreme Court ruled that its state government had discriminated against women for years by denying them equal pay for jobs of .  

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Legal came to an end in 1954, when, in Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court set aside its earlier precedent in Plessy v. Ferguson.  

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The first and only place in which the idea of equality appears in the Constitution is in the .  

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The Supreme Court has ruled that that is so pervasive as to create a hostile or abusive work environment is a form of gender discrimination, which is forbidden by the 1964 Civil Rights Act.  

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When children are assigned to schools near their homes, and those homes are in neighborhoods that are racially segregated for social and economic reasons is an example of segregation.  

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Written by Alice Paul and first introduced in Congress in the 1920s, the was seen by many as a threat to the family and languished for decades.  

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