Civil rights are the protections and privileges of personal liberty given to all citizens by law. Civil rights are distinguished from "human rights" or "natural rights"; civil rights are rights that persons do have, while natural or human rights are rights that many scholars think that people should have. For example, the philosopher John Locke (1632-1704) argued that the natural rights of life, liberty, and property should be converted into civil rights and protected by the state as an aspect of the social contract. Others have argued that people acquire rights as an inalienable gift from God or ...

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• Civil rights - Theoretical background: The concept of right
• Civil rights - Hohfeld's concept of right
• Civil rights - Libertarian and political theory: Nozick and Rawls
• Civil rights - Concepts applied: an example
• Civil rights - Civil rights movement
• Civil rights - Civil Rights Movement in Northern Ireland
• Civil rights - Liberal feminism

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Historically, the process of moving toward equality under the law was long and tenuous. But after a status had been reached where every citizen has the same rights by law, practical issues of discrimination remain. Even if every person is treated equally by the state, there may not be equality because of discrimination within society, such as in the workplace, which may hinder civil liberties in everyday life. During the second half of the 20th century Western societies have therefore introduced legislation that tries to remove discrimination on ...

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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (CRA '64) in the United States was landmark legislation outlawing discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. Originally conceived to protect the rights of black men, the bill was amended to also protect the civil rights of women. Howard W. Smith, the powerful Virginian who chaired the House Rules Committee, opposed civil rights laws for blacks, but he supported them for women. He had long been close to Alice Paul one of the leaders of the suffrage movement in the 1910s and 1920 ...

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• Civil Rights Act of 1964 - Legislative history
• Civil Rights Act of 1964 - Vote statistics
• Civil Rights Act of 1964 - Major Features of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Civil Rights Act of 1964 - Title I
• Civil Rights Act of 1964 - Title II
• Civil Rights Act of 1964 - Title III
• Civil Rights Act of 1964 - Title VI
• Civil Rights Act of 1964 - Title VII
• Civil Rights Act of 1964 - Footnotes

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The civil rights movement in the United States has been a long, primarily nonviolent struggle to bring full civil rights and equality under the law to all Americans. The movement has had a lasting impact on United States society, both in its tactics, the increased social and legal acceptance of civil rights it brought about and its exposure of the prevalence and cost of racism. It has been made up of many movements, though it most often refers to the struggles between 1945 and 1970 to end discrimination against African-American ...

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• American Civil Rights Movement 1896-1954 - The Niagara Movement and the founding of the NAACP
• American Civil Rights Movement 1896-1954 - The American Jewish community and the civil rights movement
• American Civil Rights Movement 1896-1954 - The New Negro
• American Civil Rights Movement 1896-1954 - Marcus Garvey and the UNIA
• American Civil Rights Movement 1896-1954 - The Labor movement and civil rights
• American Civil Rights Movement 1896-1954 - The Left and civil rights
• American Civil Rights Movement 1896-1954 - The Scottsboro Boys
• American Civil Rights Movement 1896-1954 - The NAACP
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The Civil Rights Movement in the United States has been a long, primarily nonviolent struggle to bring full civil rights and equality under the law to primarily African American citizens of the United States. There have been many movements on behalf of other groups in the U.S. over time, but the term is often used to refer to the struggles between 1955 and 1968 to end discrimination against African-Americans and to end racial segregation, especially in the U.S. South. See African American for informati ...

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• American Civil Rights Movement 1955-1968 - Background
• American Civil Rights Movement 1955-1968 - The murder of Emmett Till
• American Civil Rights Movement 1955-1968 - Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
• American Civil Rights Movement 1955-1968 - Mass action replaces litigation
• American Civil Rights Movement 1955-1968 - Desegregating Little Rock
• American Civil Rights Movement 1955-1968 - Sit-ins and freedom rides
• American Civil Rights Movement 1955-1968 - Organizing in Mississippi
• American Civil Rights Movement 1955-1968 - The Albany movement
• American Civil Rights Movement 1955-1968 - The Birmingham campaign
• American Civil Rights Movement 1955-1968 - The March on Washington
• American Civil Rights Movement 1955-1968 - Mississippi Freedom Summer
• American Civil Rights Movement 1955-1968 - The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
• American Civil Rights Movement 1955-1968 - Selma and the Voting Rights Act
• American Civil Rights Movement 1955-1968 - The American Jewish community and the civil rights movement
• American Civil Rights Movement 1955-1968 - Fraying of alliances
• American Civil Rights Movement 1955-1968 - Race riots
• American Civil Rights Movement 1955-1968 - Black power
• American Civil Rights Movement 1955-1968 - Memphis and the Poor People's March
• American Civil Rights Movement 1955-1968 - Footnotes
• American Civil Rights Movement 1955-1968 - Documentary films

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The term 'civil rights' is often used synonymously with civil liberties, even though theoretical jurisprudence distinguishes between right and liberty (see below: Hohfeld). The root of the word 'civil' reflects the association between a bundle of rights and 'citizenship'. The term Human rights refers to a broader concept. In the early legal systems of Ancient Rome, plebeians and women had no right to vote whether as a juror or for political purposes, and ownership of property was an aspect of patria potestas, i.e. only th ...

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The term 'civil rights' is often used synonymously with civil liberties, even though theoretical jurisprudence distinguishes between right and liberty (see below: Hohfeld). The root of the word 'civil' reflects the association between a bundle of rights and 'citizenship'. The term Human rights refers to a broader concept. In the early legal systems of Ancient Rome,women and slaves had no right to vote whether as a juror or for political purposes, and ownership of property was an aspect of patria potestas, i.e. only the fa ...

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Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld (1879-1918) maintained that analysis of legal issues is frequently muddled and inconsistent because the legal concepts are improperly understood. The first question, therefore, is to understand what the rights are in "civil rights". There are two major schools of thought: Hohfeld proposed a structured system of interrelated concepts Nozick and Rawls approached the concept of rights from the perspectives of libertarian and political theory.See also:

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(The full text of the Act is available online.)[7] Civil Rights Act of 1964 - Title I. Barred unequal application of voter registration requirements, but did not abolish literacy tests sometimes used to disqualify African Americans and poor white voters. "It shall be the duty of the judge designated pursuant to this section to assign the case for hearing at the earliest practicable date and to cause the case to be ...

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Harlan correctly predicted the consequences of this decision: it put an end to the attempts by Radical Republicans to ensure the civil rights of blacks and ushered in the widespread segregation of blacks in housing, employment and public life that confined them to second-class citizenship throughout much of the United States until the passage of civil rights legislation in the 1960s in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement. The decision that the Reconstruction-era Civil Rights Acts were unconstitutional has not been overturned; on the ...

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The NICRA was founded on 29 January 1967 at a public meeting in the International Hotel, Belfast. The meeting was attended by all political parties in Northern Ireland, although the Ulster Unionist Party delegate Nelson Elder withdrew over a dispute about capital punishment. The meeting elected a 13-member committee to draw up a constitution for the new organization. This committee contained representatives from the Northern Ireland Labour Party, the Ulster Liberal Party, the Committee for Social Justice, the Communist Party of Ireland and the Irish Congress of Trade Unions as wel ...

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Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association, Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association - Origins, Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association - Derry March, Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association - Burntollet, Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association - Bloody Sunday

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The labor movement, with some exceptions, had historically excluded African-Americans. While the radical labor organizers who led organizing drives among packinghouse workers in Chicago and Kansas City during World War I and the steel industry in 1919 made determined efforts to appeal to black workers, they were not able to overcome the widespread distrust of the labor movement among black workers in the North. With the ultimate defeat of both of those organizing drives, t ...

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American Civil Rights Movement 1896-1954, American Civil Rights Movement 1896-1954 - The Niagara Movement and the founding of the NAACP, American Civil Rights Movement 1896-1954 - The American Jewish community and the civil rights movement, American Civil Rights Movement 1896-1954 - The New Negro, American Civil Rights Movement 1896-1954 - Marcus Garvey and the UNIA, American Civil Rights Movement 1896-1954 - The Labor movement and civil rights, American Civil Rights Movement 1896-1954 - The Left and civil rights, American Civil Rights Movement 1896-1954 - The Scottsboro Boys, American Civil Rights Movement 1896-1954 - The NAACP, American Civil Rights Movement 1896-1954 - And see

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At the turn of the century, Booker T. Washington was regarded, particularly by the white community, as the foremost spokesman for African-Americans in the United States. Washington, who led the Tuskegee Institute, preached a message of self-reliance, in which he urged blacks to concentrate on improving their economic position rather than demanding social equality until they had proved that they "deserved" it. His accommodationist rhetoric not only accepted the cont ...

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Early liberal senators, led by Paul Douglas, had long hoped for a bill guaranteeing open housing, accommodations, public transit, restaurants, etc. since the early 1950s, mainly in response to growing integrationist policies from the military in World War II and stronger demands for equal rights from minority groups. The senators desired these minority rights to be protected by the attorney general and Justice Department of the United States, and verdicts for infringement to be handed ou ...

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The People's Democracy group did not take part in this halt to marching. In imitation of Martin Luther King's Selma to Montgomery marches, about 40 PD members held a march between Belfast and Derry starting on 1 January 1969. The march was repeatedly attacked by loyalists (including off-duty members of the Ulster Special Constabulary) along its route. The most violent incident occurred at Burntollet bridge where the marchers were attacked by about 200 unionists armed wit ...

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Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association, Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association - Origins, Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association - Derry March, Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association - Burntollet, Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association - Bloody Sunday

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Congress had amended Title VII once before, in 1972, when it broadened the coverage of the Act. It was moved to overhaul Title VII in 1991 and to harmonize it with Section 1981 jurisprudence, by a series of Supreme Court decisions: Patterson v. McLean Credit Union, 491 U.S. 164 (1989), which held that an employee could not sue for damages caused by racial harassment on the job, because even if the employer's conduct were discriminatory, the employer had not denied the employee the "same right . . . to make and enforce contracts ...

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Civil Rights Act of 1991, Civil Rights Act of 1991 - Predecessors of the Act, Civil Rights Act of 1991 - Impetus for the Act, Civil Rights Act of 1991 - Changes made by the Act, Civil Rights Act of 1991 - External sources

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The Patterson case had attracted much criticism since it appeared to leave employees who had been victimized by racial harassment on the job with no effective remedies, as they could not prove a violation of Section 1981 and could rarely show any wage losses that they could recover under Title VII. In addition, the Court's narrow reading of the phrase "make or enforce contracts" also eliminated any liability under Section 1981 for lost promotions and most other personnel decisions that did not constitute ei ...

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In September 1968, the NICRA and the Derry Housing Action Committee organized a march to be held in Derry on 5 October 1968. On 1 October, the Protestant fraternal organization, the Apprentice Boys of Derry, announced their intention to march the same route on the same day and time, in an attempt to get the civil rights march banned. William Craig, the Northern Ireland Home Affairs Minister, obliged them and banned the civil rights march from the city centre. When the civil rights marchers attempted to defy the ban, they were baton-ch ...

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Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association, Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association - Origins, Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association - Derry March, Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association - Burntollet, Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association - Bloody Sunday

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The Court held that the language of the Fourteenth Amendment, which prohibited denial of equal protection by a state, did not give Congress power to regulate these private acts. The Court also acknowledged that the Thirteenth Amendment does apply to private actors, but only to the extent that it prohibits people from owning slaves, not exhibiting discriminatory behavior. The Court says that "it would be running the slavery argument into the ground to make it apply to every act of discrimination which a person may see fit to make as to ...

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Civil Rights Cases, Civil Rights Cases - Facts, Civil Rights Cases - Decision of the Court, Civil Rights Cases - Dissent, Civil Rights Cases - Consequences of the decision

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