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part of the education amendments of 1972 signed by President Nixon which prohibited discrimination based on sex in any federally funded education program

government body telling a publisher of news what it can and cannot publish (relivant in NY times v. U.S.)

A judicial order which offcially instructs individuals or groups to stop something they are currently doin (relevant to NY Times v. U.S.)

published, false defamatory statement not protected under free speech if malicious intent and intentional libel can be proven

method used in United States of applying the protections in the Bill of Rights on a Case by Case basis

clause in both the 5th and the 14th amendment guarenteeing the rights of due process (trial by jury, jury of peers, habeas corpusm attorney) in any government action depriving people of lifem liberty, or property

first organized gathering of the American women’s rights movement in 1848

riots at the Stonewall Inn from June 28 to July 1 in 1969; commonly accepted as the beginning of the gay liberation movement

organzied group involved in civil rights government; litigated most civil rights cases including Brown V. Board of Education in 1954

Women’s rights organization founded in 1906 and fun by feminist leaders such as Betty Friedan, Shirley Chisolm, and Gloria Steinem

knowningly disobeying a law that an individual considers to be unjust in an attempt to bring the issue of the attention of a wider audience

holding from Plessy V Ferguson (1896) allowing discrimination in public accommodation as long as they were theoretically equal, later overturned by Brown v Board of Education in 1954