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7 Cards in this Set
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Civil Rights
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Specific rights that embody the general right to equal treatment under the law
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Racial Profiling
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The singling out of certain people for suspicion based on their race or ethnicity
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Equal Protection Clause
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14th amendment clause specifying that no state can deny any of its people equal protection under the law
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Jim Crow Laws
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Enforced segregation
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Plessy v. Ferguson
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Seperate but equal
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Civil Disobedience
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A peaceful, well-publicized violation of a law designed to dramatize that law's injustice
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Equal Rights Amendment
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Proposed amend. that banned gender discrimination
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