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https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2020-09-09/stand-firm-right-protest The First Amendment allowed ordinary individuals the rights of the freedoms we have today. Including freedom of speech, assembly, religion, and petition. This played a big part in the civil rights era because this gave individuals the right to protest the racial injustice that was happening during this time. Without a lot of these occurrences that the first amendment brought to the table; we wouldn’t have had a lot of the landmark cases that turned American around. The United States Supreme Court made these amendments stronger by the court cases that came out of the civil rights movement.  To start it off, the Plessy v. Ferguson case in 1896, this case was the outcome of a black man known as Homer Plessy, who performed his right to protest by sitting in an unassigned seat in a segregated train car. The outcome of this case was the justification of racial segregation where the supreme court made the decision ...

What I Learned  About Bd. of Regents v. Bakke (1978). Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, this case is about Allan P. Bakke that applied to a bunch of medical schools but was rejected by all of them.  He applied to the University of California, Davis, twice, but after the second time, he decided to sue the school in state court saying that the affirmative action programs were unconstitutional.  This case made a point decision by the Supreme Court that upheld Affirmative Action . Allowing race to be one of the many factors in college admission policies. The court ruled specific racial quotas such as the 16 out of 100 seats set aside for minority students and disadvantaged students, which was deemed impermissible. While segregated schools have been outlawed by the Supreme Court and though the court has ordered school districts to make bigger steps to assure integration, they are still asking the legality question of affirmative action programs brought by univ...

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION    Affirmative action, also known as “positive discrimination” is a policy made by the government designed to help disadvantaged groups find employment, attend universities, and acquire housing. This policy's main factor was to offer a boost to disadvantaged groups and increase the numbers of diversity in all kinds of communities; such as a workplace or educational institutions, etc.  Basically, it's a way of taking positive steps to increase the representation of disadvantaged groups of culture that have been historically excluded. In cases where it involves preferential selection ; like the selection solely on the basis of race, ethnicity, or gender. Affirmative action generally promotes disagreement. In 1961 this policy was brought up by John F. Kennedy’s presidential executive orders that stated; employees have to be treated with fairness regardless of their race. Around the year 1967, this list widened by including gender and religion; the outcome ...

                                                                          https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/boycott-prevails/  Montgomery bus boycott cont  For our EOTO the first thing that was presented was The Montgomery bus boycott. This boycott was a civil rights protest in Montgomery, Alabama, where African Americans protested the racial discrimination of having to ride in separate seats from white people. The catalyst of this protest was on December 1, 1995, where an African American woman is known as, Rosa Parks, was jailed and fired from her job for refusing to move out of an assigned seat that was placed in the white section of the bus. The boycott started on December 5, 1995, and ended around December 20, 1956, where the outcome resulted in...