Please read Chapter 27, the U.S. Supreme Court cases below, and the short article on the threat to same-sex marriage and contraception today.
Then, in a post of at least 200 words, discuss the following:
• In what ways did the political and social culture of the 1960s advance the cause of civil liberties and human rights for Americans, and wh were the limits of that advancement?
In addressing the question above, consider the following guiding
• How did young Americans engage in the rights movements of the 1960s?
• How did the Johnson Administration help to promote civil rights?
• How did the War on Poverty represent a “sea change” in the way funds were allocated (community action programs)?
• How did some Americans react to the slow progress of civil rights and others to the advancement of voting rights and the War on Poverty?”
• How did the Supreme Court cases of the 1960s that centered on privacy set the stage for later cases?
• Do you think the rights to same-sex marriage and contraception at risk today?
Reading links:
oyez. org/cases/1964/496
firstamendment.mt su.edu/article/griswold-v-connecticut/
oyez.org/cases/1966/395
britannica.com/event/Loving-v-Virginia
oyez.org/ca ses/1971/70-17
embryo.asu.edu/pages/eisenstadt-v-baird-1972
oyez.org/cases/ 2014/14-556
library.law.howard.edu/civilrightshistory/Igbtq/obergefell
axios.com/2022/06/24/clarence-thomas-same-sex-marriage-contraception