Rights, Diversity, and

Adult Learning

Raquel CamposCUR/518

January 18, 2016Melinda Medina

Civil Rights Movement Major Events

• 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson Decision -- Supreme Court rules that separate but equal facilities for different races is legal. Gives legal approval to Jim Crow laws

• 1919 Race riots and Lynchings Claim Hundreds of Lives -- Over 25 race riots occur in the summer of 1919 with 38 killed in Chicago. 70 blacks, including 10 veterans, are lynched in the South

• 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topekadecision -- Supreme Court reverses Plessy by stating that separate schools are by nature unequal. Schools are ordered to desegregate "with all deliberate speed“(U.S. History Resources).

Civil Rights Movement Major Events

• 1965 Assassination of Malcom X -- Rejecting integration and nonviolence, Malcolm splits off from Elijah Muhammad's Black Muslims and is killed by black opponents

• 1965 Watts Riots -- In first of more than 100 riots, Los Angeles black suburb erupts in riots, burning, looting, and 34 deaths

• 1968 MLK Assassination -- While supporting sanitation workers' strike which had been marred by violence in Memphis, King is shot by James Earl Ray. Riots result in 125 cities (U.S. History Resources).

Civil Rights Movement Major Events

• 1978 Bakke v. Regents of University of California Decision -- Supreme Court rules that fixed racial quotas are illegal after Allan Bakke is denied admission to UC Davis medical school even though his grades and scores were higher than most minority applicants admitted

• 1992 Los Angeles Riots -- Following acquittal of officers who beat Rodney King, 600 buildings are torched and 50 people killed, and $1 billion in damage recorded (U.S. History Resources).

Civil vs. Political Rights

Civil Rights: Protect an individual from being discriminated against because of their race, age, gender, religion, and so forth (Cornell University Law School).

Examples: Freedom of speech, press, and assembly; the right to vote; freedom from involuntary servitude; and the right to equality in public places. Discrimination occurs when the civil rights of an individual are denied or interfered with because of their membership in a particular group or class.

Civil vs. Political Rights

Political Rights: Include natural justice and the right to a fair trial. Also, entails the power to participate directly or indirectly in the establishment or administration of government, such as the right of citizenship, the right to vote, and the right to hold public office (Cornell University Law School).

Examples: Right to a fair trial, rights of participation in civil society, the right to petition, the right to vote, etc.

Universal Human Rights

• December 10, 1948 -- United Nations representatives from all regions of the world formally adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

• The purpose is to save the future generations from the devastation of international conflict (United Nations.)

Article 3

Affirmative Action and Diversity

• Affirmative action is selective in mandating changes that benefit previously disadvantaged groups.

• Diversity is inclusive, encompassing everyone in the workplace. It seeks to create a working environment in which everyone and every group fits, feels accepted, has value, and contributes (USHistory.com).

Adult Learning Influences

Historical events that have occurred in the past have helped set and paved the future and pavement for many of us. The Civil Rights Movement has allowed for minorities to receive and further an education. Adult learners are able to move forward with their education and receive services/aid if necessary.

ReferencesAffirmative Action. (2016). Retrieved from http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1970.htmlCivil Rights. Retrieved from https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/civil_rightsFeldmeth, Greg D. U.S. History Resources. (1998)Retrieved from behttp://home.earthlink.net/~gfeldmeth/USHistory.htmlThe Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Retrieved from http://www.un.org/en/universal-

declaration-human-rights/index.html