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Civil Rights' refer to the measures the countrymen expect from their government to defend them in the application of their rights against the unfair execution of such rights by governments, groups, or persons. (Topic Overview Unit 5 - Civil Rights: Demanding Equality) A civil right is an obligatory right or privilege, which in case meddled with by another results in an action for injury. Freedom of speech, fourth estate, assembly, exercise of one's franchise, liberty from involuntary enslavement, and the right to enjoy equal rights in public places are all instances of civil rights. In the event of denial or obstruction of civil rights due to owning allegiance to a specific set or class, incidence of inequity happens. Laws have been framed to check discrimination because of ethnic status, sex, religion, age, initial state of enslavement, bodily disadvantage, country to which they belong and in certain cases sexual preference. (Civil Rights: An Overview)
On July 4, 1976, the Declaration of Independence, proclaimed that "We believe these truths to be self-evident: That every men are born equal ... " (Civil Rights: Law and History) Nevertheless, the new state announcing its liberation allowed the prolongation of the tradition of slavery for the people of African lineage -- a state of affairs which persisted until the Civil War in the 1860s....
At the culmination of the Civil War, a lot of things were pending to be accomplished to guarantee the rights and privileges of the citizenship to every American. With America becoming an increasingly plural country, opening the floodgates to the settlers arriving from throughout the world, the question of racial discrimination lasted for a lot of people belonging to minority groups. Women and people with handicap even struggled and secured for themselves regulations, which gave equity and justice. (Civil Rights: Law and History)
The Fourteenth Amendment was initially devised to confer equal rights to the slaves who were liberated recently. However, it did not stop isolation. To ensure these fundamental rights for categories like women, minorities, and the handicapped, it needed more than a thorough perusal of the Constitution. In case of each of these categories, it needed years of vigorous toiling to secure for themselves fresh laws that assured their equal status. As a matter of fact, isolation was favored by the Supreme Court in the instance of Plessy v Ferguson. This legal implication was regarding a Louisiana law which ordered blacks and whites not to ride together in railroad cars. While supporting the law, the Court gave its verdict that "equal protection of the law" can be construed…
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"Civil Rights: An Overview" Legal Information Institute. Retrieved from http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/civil_rights.html Accessed on 11 May, 2005
'Civil Rights: Law and History" Retrieved from http://www.usdoj.gov/kidspage/crt/crtmenu.htm Accessed on 11 May, 2005
'Topic Overview Unit 5 - Civil Rights: Demanding Equality" Retrieved from http://www.learner.org/channel/courses/democracyinamerica/dia_5/dia_5_topic.html Accessed on 11 May, 2005
During the mid 1960s, "highly public demonstrations" (525) became more popular and gained momentum among the community because popular and significant individuals close to the cause supported them. The power and attention these protest garnered illustrated just how serious African-Americans were in achieving their goals. The protests proved to the people that they could do more than they thought they could. They could accomplish things even though they were
The milestone that the Civil Rights Movement made as concerns the property ownership is encapsulated in the Civil Rights Act of 1968 which is also more commonly referred to as the Fair Housing Act, or as CRA '68. This was as a follow-up or reaffirmation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, discussed above. It is apparent that the Civil Rights Act of 1866 outlawed discrimination in property and housing there
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