After reading this chapter, you should be able to:
Describe "Affirmative Action Bake Sales," understand how they relate to affirmative action admission policies, and why they are controversial.
Review the role of the NAACP in the courtroom and how its efforts eventually led to segregation being declared unconstitutional in the 1954 case of Brown v. Board of Education.
Summarize those key political, economic, and social changes that transformed the civil rights movement in the post-Brown era, including the use of civil disobedience, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the controversy over affirmative action, and the persistent problem of black unemployment and poverty.
Explain the civil rights needs of other minorities, including Latinos, Asian-Americans, Native-Americans, gays and lesbians, and the disabled. Understand what advances each group has made and how their struggle is similar to and different from that of African-Americans.
Trace the history of women's rights in America and include such specific issues as the ERA, sexual discrimination and harassment in the workplace, and single-sex education.
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