Chapter Outlines
Chapter Five: Civil Rights

Basic Concepts

• Definition of Civil Rights
• The Constitution and Equality
  
  

The Perennial Challenge of Race Relations in America

• Race Relations Before the Civil War
• Race Relations After the Civil War
• The Dismal Era: 1876 to 1932
• Small Signs of Progress: 1933 to 1953
• Brown v. Board of Education
• The Civil Rights Movement and Southern Resistance
• From Desegregation to Affirmative Action
• Fifty Years of Civil Rights
  
  

The Civil Rights Movement Extended

• Women
• Native Americans
• Latinos
• Asian Americans
• Nontraditional Minority Groups
  
  

The New Controversy: Affirmative Action

• Constitutionality of Affirmative Action
  
  

Economics and Politics: The Racial Income Gap
Global Perspectives: Immigration and Civil Rights
Debating the Constitution: Affirmative Action, Pro and Con