Civil Liberties v. Civil Rights

Civil Liberties

Limits Government from removing rights

Anti-Tyranny 

Come from Bill of Rights



Protects + Empowers All

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Civil Rights

Stops Majority from Discriminating 

Anti-Discrimination

Come from 14th Amendment

Protects + Empowers Minority*=All

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Civil Scavenger Hunt

I’m going to give you an image or description of something and I want you to label it as an issue of CR=Civil Right or CL=Civil Liberty. Be prepared to explain your answer and tell us the basis or origin of this right/liberty.

1. Freedom of Speech
   

2. Right to vote
   

3. Stop and Frisk by police only applied to minorities
   

4. Job discrimination based upon gender
   

5. The police illegally searching a car
   

6. Your home searched by the police without a warrant
   

7. A teacher leading a school prayer in a public school classroom
   

8. Freedom of the Press
   

9. People being searched at an airport based only on their ethnicity
   

10. The right to a fair trial
    

11. Denial of education based on race
    

12. Linda Brown was unable to go to school because of her race
    

13. Homer Plessy* was unable to ride in a train car because of his race
    

14. Maria Dimples was denied admission to medical school because of her sex

15. Two men were not allowed to marry because of their gender
    

16. Rosa Parks was forced to sit in the back of a bus because of her race

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Who is this man and why was he discriminated against?

*Homer Adolph Plessy was not allowed to ride the “White” train car because he was 1/16 “Black” and in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896 the Supreme Court said, that’s cool.