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AP US Government & Politics: Unit 3: Civil Rights & Civil Liberties

Chicago Citations

3.1: Bill of Rights

3.2: First Amendment: Freedom of Religion

Divided court allows indoor worship services to resume in California
February 2021 SCOTUS case on the closing of churches in California due to Covid-19
Public schools receive ‘In God We Trust’ poster donations as new Texas law requires their display
Vaccine Resisters Seek Religious Exemptions. But What Counts as Religious?

3.3: First Amendment: Freedom of Speech

Categories of Speech
Know Your Rights with Freedom of Speech and Social Media
"The First Amendment is meant to keep the government from restricting free speech, not private companies."

3.4: First Amendment: Freedom of the Press

Prior Restraint

3.5: Second Amendment: Right to Bear Arms

Key facts about Americans and guns
Pew September 2021
More Perfect Podcast: The Gun Show
New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen
Link includes amicus briefs
Right to Bear Arms (Interactive Constitution)

3.6: Amendments: Balancing Individual Freedom with Public Order & Safety

More Perfect Podcast: American Pendulum I
This podcast is about the Korematsu SCOTUS case

Native American Rights

Asian American Rights

Letter from a Birmingham Jail

3.7: Selective Incorporation

3.8: Amendments: Due Process and the Rights of the Accused

Gideon v. Wainwright (from Oyez)

3.9: Amendments: Due Process & the Right to Privacy

3.10: Social Movements & Equal Protection

ACLU, Transgender Boy Sue Tennessee Over Anti-Trans Sports Law
November 2021
ADA News Coverage
Disability rights
Bayard Rustin, gay civil rights icon, pardoned by California governor for anti-gay charges
Pardoned in February 2020, civil rights & LGBTQ+ rights
Black Catholic women like Amanda Gorman are forgotten prophets of American democracy
Cesar Chavez: Commonwealth Club Address
United Farm Workers movement
Civil Rights Pioneer Bayard Rustin
Civil rights & LGBTQ+ rights
Jennifer Keelan & the Capitol Crawl
Disability rights
Reconstituting the Future: An Equality Amendment
A new ERA proposed by Catharine A. MacKinnon and Kimberle W. Crenshaw (women's rights, LGBTQ+ rights, civil rights)
The State of State Equal Rights Amendments: A National Roundup
Throughline Podcast: A.D.A. Now!
Disability rights
The Very Queer History of the Suffrage Movement
by Professor Wendy Rouse, women's rights, civil rights & LGBTQ+ rights

3.11: Government Responses to Social Movements

3.12: Balancing Minority & Majority Rights

3.13: Affirmative Action

Group that sued Harvard asks Supreme Court to end use of race in college admissions
Justice Department accuses Yale of illegal bias against White, Asian American applicants in admissions
More Perfect Podcast: The Architect
Podcast about affirmative action
Most Americans say colleges should not consider race or ethnicity in admissions
Prop. 16 failed in California. Why? And what’s next?
Affirmative action proposition on the California ballot in 2020

Latinx Rights

Ana Castillo
Xicanisma
A Latinx Resource Guide
San Antonio v. Rodriguez
Speeches of Dolores Huerta
labor rights, women's rights, children's rights, farm worker's rights