MAMET'S INFLUENCES ON RACE

Slavery: Black woman were looked at as objects and property, nothing more.

Fugitive Slave Law

Emancipation Proclamation: Abraham Lincoln emancipated all black slaves in states still engaged in rebellion against the union.
Dred Scott decision

14th Amendment-addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws.

*Section 1 of 4: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Voting Rights Act

The internment of the Japanese- Japanese Americans were forced out of their homes into camps after the attack on Pearl Harbor during WWII
Kansas-Nebraska Act

Busing-assigning and transporting students to schools in a way to redress prior racial segregation of schools, or to overcome the effects of residential segregation on local school demographics (most prominent in Brown v. Board of Education)   

Missouri Compromise

Affirmative action - Providing special opportunities or favor one group over another

2008 election