Across
- 2. Practice in which banks refuse to make loans to people living in certain geographic locations
- 6. obligation imposed on government to take positive action to protect citizens from any illegal action of government agencies and of other private citizens
- 7. The use of any unreasonable and unjust criterion of exclusion
- 8. Doctrine that public accommodations could be segregated by race but still be considered equal
- 9. literally, “by law”; refers to legally enforced practices, such as school segregation in the South before the 1960s
Down
- 1. Laws enacted by southern states following Reconstruction that discriminated against African Americans
- 3. One of three civil war amendments; it guaranteed equal protection and due process
- 4. One of three civil war amendments; it abolished slavery
- 5. One of three civil war amendments; it guaranteed voting rights for African American men
- 7. literally, “by fact”; refers to practices that occur even when there is no legal enforcement, such as school segregation in much of the United States today