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Chapter 5: Political Opinion and Political Action

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Please read the following groups of questions and type your answers in the space provided. Click Submit Answers for Grading to send the answer to your professor. Click the highlighted links to open in a separate window the passages or sites you’ll use to answer the questions.

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	For more information on equal protection, go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/equal_protection.html. Read the Court's decisions in Plessy v. Ferguson (located in the "historical supreme court decisions" link) along with the Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education. How did the Supreme Court's interpretation of the equal protection clause change between these two cases?   To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

	For more information on civil rights, go to: www.naacp.org. Read the brief history of the NAACP. What have been some of the NAACP's biggest victories? What tactics did they use to achieve those victories? Which branch of government has the NAACP been most successful in? Click on the link that says "programs." What kinds of activities does the NAACP engage in? What current issues is the NAACP concerned about?   To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

	For more information on civil rights, go to: http://www.usdoj.gov/crt. What is the mission of the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice? What actions can they take to carry out their mission? The Civil Rights Division is divided up into separate sections. What are those sections and what do each of them do?   To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

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