1. Question : Matching
: Affirmative action
» :
compensatory or preferential treatment of minorities
: Americans with
Disabilities Act (ADA) » : bans
discrimination against people with disabilities in education, employment,
health care, housing, and transportation with regard to all programs and
organizations
: Brown v. Board of Education
or Topeka, Kansas » :
landmark Supreme Court decision declaring that segregation itself violates the
equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment (1954)
: Civil Rights Act of 1964
» :
prohibits discrimination in public accommodations, in programs receiving
federal funds, and in employment, and established the EEOC to enforce its
decisions
: Civil Rights Act of 1968
» :
prohibits discrimination in the sale of rental of a dwelling or in advertising
the sale or rental
: de jure segregation
» : segregation permitted or required by law
: Equal Rights Amendment
(ERA) » : a
proposed amendment to the US Constitution guaranteeing equality of rights of the
sexes
: Gender
» :
cultural imposed sex-role stereotypes
: Separate-but-equal
doctrine » :
interpreting the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to allow
segregation of races if facilities were equal (1896 –1954)
: Sex
» : whether someone is born male or female
