Presidential Civil Rights 1968-2001

(majority of significant work done in his first term in office)

• ERA Passed (Equal Rights Acmmendmen, giving more rights to women)
• Gave more women jobs in Gov. (Supreme court judge: Rita Ushr)
• Philadelphia PLan 1970 (goals needed to be met on hiring minorities such as African Americans)
• Equal Employment Opportunity Act
• No gay marraige

Basically did very little to help

• Betty Ford Centre (refuge for women)
• WOMEN: 

Most on poverty

Only 73% of men's wages in same job

Dominated low paid jobs and poverty among adults

Entered more masculine jobs

• Ford did nothing fopr women

• Appointed black & hispanic judges
• Increased number of black state employees by just under 2,000
• Double female cabinet member

Although not huge changes, it was a start and shoed that covil rights and America overall were moving forward

• Opposition for 1996 election Dole had Vice President female (Husband had $ trouble and comments on being too busy with her nails to do work) Ment Reagan had extra support, but showed that females had difficulty in specific lines of work. 
• Slow to deal with AID's (tried to promote absitnance like pre-dicesors)
• Opposed abortion (winning him over the New Right)
• Accused of racism & homophobis 
• Increase in teen pregnancies
• Rich got richer & poor got poorer
• Medicare only offered partial nsurance & mostly only  to those who could afford it leaving 14% with no health insurance

Spending on welfare cut (as reducing Gov defeict, only reduced to certain extent)

cut: spending defence

HOWEVER reduced tax rates 25% over 3 years

• supporting school prayer
• difficult for abortion

• Women began to campaign for laws and regulations
• Bush made it difficult for abortions (managed to get some ststes to ban abortion clinics)
• Rodney King beaten to death, little punnishment for mudreders= HUGE riots
• Flag burning legalised (as people had a right to dow hat they wanted, nagative as it symbolised hatred and frustration towards America & it's government)
• Race riots: 55 dead, 2,300 injured & in 1992, 4,000 houses burned due to Rodney King's death
• Looked into AID's (New Right did not like this)

Thomas Clorance: Supreme Judge 2nd African American. However no great accomlpishment as:

anti-feminist

Sexual harrasment

anto-abortion 

did not support minimum wage

• Reduced welfare (New Rion (New Right Happy)
• Denied help to immigrants unless citizens of USA (needed to reduce spending)
• Popular with women
• supported Abortion (reversed Bush's anti-abortion acts)
• Hilary Clinton supprted her husband (knowledgable within government)
• No granted lifetime support for single mothers
• Rising female employment
• Popular with africa americans
• Tentative support for affirmitive action (prevent exclusion from employment based on descrimination of race, gander or disability)
• Abortion rose
• Rights of gays rose
• Divorce rose
• Religious importance declined
• Illegitimate babies born (69% Black & 27% White)