This guide is for High school students enrolled in AP US Government and Politics. It includes resources for tracing the civil rights journey towards recognition, inclusion, and equality that different groups of people in the United States has taken throug
A collection of over 85,000 artifacts, photos, printed materials, textiles, and oral histories that document the history and stories of the Chinese American diaspora. This is a wonderful online resource for you to explore to help build out your project!
An encyclopedia entry from Britannica about the Chinese Exclusion Act. This is going to be an essential piece of information to include in your project if you are focusing on Asian Americans!
SELECT SUPREME COURT CASES
These are some of the cases around the fight for equal recognition under the law for Asian Americans. It is not a comprehensive list!
An overview of the Supreme Court case that dealt with women who had traveled from China to San Francisco on their own. The case in notable because it said that the power to determine regulations on immigration rests with no the Federal government and not individual states.
A landmark Supreme Court case that said the that a child born in the United States to parents who were not citizens are grated the rights and privileges of citizenship as outlined in the 14th Amendment.
Another landmark Supreme Court Case. This one upheld the internment of Japanese Americans (under an Executive Order) during World War II as Constitutional.
This landmark (but seemingly not well know) Supreme Court case found that children with limited English proficiency in schools are required to be provided with supplemental language instruction under the Civil Rights Act of 1964.