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Civil Rights Today
Civil Rights
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What are civil rights?
The rights of people to social and political freedom, equality
Definition
Why should we fight for our rights?
Our basic needs and rights include food, housing, education, security, and liberty.
Denying these rights restricts the ability to live freely.
Why
Poverty
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Should poverty be a concern for America today?
#1
15% of the US lives in poverty
22% of children live in poverty
#2
#3
The US government states that a family of four can live on $26,000 per year
It is $13,000 for a single person.
Voting Rights
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Restrictions to Voting
In an effort to deny primarily African Americans, but also poor white Southerns from voting, poll taxes and literacy tests were given.
Pre 1965
First Voting Rights Act
African Americans were threatened and killed if they voted in the South. Volunteers registering voters in the South were also targeted by the KKK.
President Johnson in 1965 passed the Act to ban barriers to voting in the US.
1965
Language Discrimination
1975
Mexican American farm laborers were harassed for politically organizing. Many chose to stop voting. Poverty, illiteracy, and speaking English as a first language inhibited many in the Southwest.
The reauthrozation of voter protection included language discrimination. If a minority group was more than 5% of the local population voting information and ballots had to be written in that groups language (protected Mexican Americans, Asian Americans, Native Americans)
Voter Suppression Today
Examples:
--Mandatory ID Laws
--Limiting Early Voting
--Ending Same Day Voter Registration
--Political Group Sending Fliers with Fake Voting Dates
--Changing or Eliminating Polling Places
--Convicted Felons
Today
Which groups of people are tageted by these laws?
Racial Inequality
Social advantages and disparities
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Why does wealth matter?
How can you increase wealth?
Wealth
Does your zipcode matter?
Schools receive money based on their property tax of households. Urban and rural districts lose in education.
Education
MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Pittsburgh Public -- $40,000
Butler -- $49,000
Shaler Area -- $59,000
North Hills -- $62,000
Mars -- $80,000
Seneca Valley -- $83,000
Hampton -- $85,000
North Allegheny -- $96,000
Pine/Richland -- $112,000
What does the prison population look like in America?
https://www.aclu.org/infographic-combating-mass-incarceration-facts
Prison
LGBTQ
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- Violence
- Adoption/Parenting
- Coversion Therapy
- Employment Discrimination
- Housing Discrimination
- Healthcare
- Use of Public Facilities
Women's Issues
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- Sexual Assualt
- Workplace Discrimination
- Pay Gap
- Inequality in School
- Political Participation
- Segregation in Work