U3.10-3.13 Civil Rights & Equal Protection

Explain the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause; Brown v. Board of Education (1954) and the resistance to its implementation; the context and argument structure of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail" (1963); the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965, and Title IX (1972); and the NAACP's litigation strategy for advancing civil rights through the federal courts.