Chapter 15-civil rights outline Thursday, November 17, 2016 9:00 PM ? Introduction Civil rights issue Group is denied access to facilities, opportunities, or services available to other groups, usually along ethnic or racial lines Issue is whether differences in treatment are "reasonable" Some differences are: progressive taxes Some are not: classification by race subject to "strict scrutiny" The black predicament Perceived costs of granting black rights not widely shared Concentrated in small, easily organized populations Interest-group politics versus lower-income whites Blacks at a disadvantage in interest group politics because they were not able to vote in many areas Majoritarian politics worked against blacks Lynchings shocked whites, but little was done