The class will meet Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10:00am-11:45. An Honors section is available as well. More information is available at this link.
Do white Supremacists have the right to march on college campuses? Do bakers have the right to refuse services for a gay wedding? Do NFL athletes have the right to kneel during the national anthem? Do women have a right to health care coverage that provides contraception? Such pressing questions in our society today engage fundamental constitutional principles. But these principles cannot be understood except as part of a long history.
This course explores the multitude of rights struggles in American history, beginning with abolitionists and women who challenged repressive laws in the nineteenth century and continuing to the civil rights struggles of the twentieth. We will consider both how elite judges and ordinary people conceive of and struggle for rights.