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You Can't Say That! The Growing Threat to Civil Liberties from Antidiscrimination Laws by David E. Bernstein
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 About The Book

In a misguided attempt to eradicate every vestige of "discrimination" in society, activists and courts are using antidiscrimination laws to erode civil liberties such as free speech, the free exercise of religion, and freedom of association. Civil rights laws today are being applied in ways that threaten free speech on campus and in the workplace, the right of local community activists to speak out against government policies, the rights of private associations such as the Boy Scouts to determine their membership policies, and even the rights of individuals to choose their roommates.

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NOTE: Cases, laws, websites, and other resources throughout the book may be found at the following sites:
Find Law: www.FindLaw.com
LII Supreme Court Collection: SupCt.Law.Cornell.edu
The Internet Archive: www.Archive.org

GENERAL SITES OF INTEREST
Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review: www.Law.Harvard.edu
Amendments to the Constitution: www.House.gov
U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights: www.Law.Cornell.edu
The Freedom Forum: www.FreedomForum.org
The First Amendment Center: www.FirstAmendmentCenter.org
First Amendment Cyber-Tribune: Fact.Trib.com
Find Law: CaseLaw.lp.FindLaw.com
CivilRights.org Research Center: www.CivilRights.org

1964 CIVIL RIGHTS ACT
Text of the 1964 Civil Rights Act: USInfo.state.gov
Background on the Civil Rights Act: USInfo.state.gov
More About the Civil Rights Act: Archives.gov

THE JIM CROW SOUTH
The History of the Jim Crow South: JimCrowHistory.org
Jim Crow Laws: NPS.gov
"Jump Jump Jim Crow, or What Difference Did Emancipation Make?": Sunsite.Berkeley.edu

THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE
NAACP website: NAACP.org

THE AMERICAN JEWISH CONGRESS
AAJC website: AJCongress.org

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION POLICIES
The Affirmative Action and Diversity Project: AAD.English.UCSB.edu

Footnote 1.
"White v. Lee Victory Affirms Freedom of Speech": CIR-USA.org

Footnote 2.
Ballet Independents' Group (BIG) Forum on Ballet - Body - Image: CriticalDance.com

Footnote 3.
Al Knight, "Webb Deaf to Free Speech," Denver Post, October 1, 2000: DenverPost.com

Footnote 4.
"Pregnancy Discrimination vs. Religious Freedom: Sex and the Single Teacher": JendiReiter.com
Americans United Memo—"Implications of Charitable Choice Language Permitting Religious Discrimination": Archive.ACLU.org

Footnote 5.
Carl S. Kaplan, "In Library Filtering Case, an Unusual Ally," New York Times, October 2, 1998: NYTimes.com

Footnote 6.
Kirsten Lagatree, "Fighting Words: Efforts to Avoid Housing Discrimination Have Changed the Way Realty Ads Are Written," Los Angeles Times, February 12, 1995, p. 1 (available for a fee): pqasb.pqarchiver.com/LATimes/search.html

Footnote 12.
Hannah Arendt: Memory.LOC.gov and UTM.edu

Footnote 15.
David E. Bernstein, Only One Place of Redress (Durham N.C.: Duke University Press, 2001): Mason.GMU.edu

Footnote 16.
Veto message of President George H. W. Bush, October 22, 1990: BushLibrary.TAMU.edu

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