Exam 10: Legal and Social Equality: the Struggle Against Oppression and Bigotry

The court case Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education (1971) approved busing as a strategy, but it proved very unpopular. ______________became the preferred strategy to achieve racial balance.

It is illegal to discriminate against the handicapped because of the:

The Bollinger cases established that Affirmative Action

DE JURE segregation

Which of the following was a legal disability faced by women?

States that have banned race-based school assignment in university admissions does NOT include

Seven of the eight states with community property laws,

Don't Ask, Don't Tell was the plan put into place by President Bush to allow gay recruits to serve in the military as long as they did not make their orientation public

President Lawrence Summers of Harvard was forced to resign due to his politically incorrect statements position on the

The Americans with Disabilities Act requires

Affirmative action is a series of policies or active government efforts to bring valued members of disadvantaged groups in proportion with their percentage in the general population to the workplace or educational institution.

The courts may order busing only when racial imbalance has been caused by

The court case that struck down setting aside a particular percentage of federal contracts for minority-owned businesses was:

The passage of California's Proposition 187, amended the constitution to deny illegal aliens and their children which of these services?

Median family income for white and black families have grown much closer together over the last ten years.

The structure of the U.S. Constitution has given which of the following the major voice in establishing the meaning of equality under the law?

In US history, which of the following groups experienced substantial discrimination?

Brown v. Board of Education

Afrocentrism is a movement that goes beyond stressing the roles of black in American History and culture. Proponents claim that _______________.

Swann v. Charlotte Meckinberg Board of Education