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Civil Rights Movement Civil Rights Movement
CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT The civil rights movement was a struggle by African Americans in the mid-1950s to late 1960s to achieve civil rights equal to those of whites, including equal opportunity in employment, housing, and education, as well as the right to vote, the right of equal access to public... Read more
States Rights Party States Rights Party
STATES' RIGHTS PARTY The States' Rights Party, also known as the Dixiecrat Party, was a short-lived political entity founded by Democrats in the South as an alternative to the democratic party and its 1948 presidential platform. In 2003, remarks expressing a nostalgic view of the States' Rights... Read more
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civil rights civil rights
civil rights rights that a nation's inhabitants enjoy by law. The term is broader than "political rights," which refer only to rights devolving from the franchise and are held usually only by a citizen, and unlike "natural rights," civil rights have a legal as well as a philosophical basis.... Read more
Mississippi Burning Mississippi Burning
MISSISSIPPI BURNING A Summer of Hope In June 1964 the Council of Federated Organizations, a combination of four civil rights groups and the National Conference of Churches, organized what it called the Mississippi Summer Project. The project's purpose was to send northern... Read more
G.I. Bill of Rights G.I. Bill of Rights
G.I. BILL OF RIGHTS On June 22, 1944, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, also known as the G.I. Bill of Rights. The purpose of the act was to help the nation reabsorb millions of veterans returning from overseas who had been fighting in... Read more
gay-rights movement gay-rights movement
gay-rights movement organized efforts to end the criminalization of homosexuality and protect the civil rights of homosexuals. While there was some organized activity on behalf of the rights of homosexuals from the mid-19th through the first half of the 20th cent., the modern gay-rights movement... Read more
Civil Rights Cases Civil Rights Cases
CIVIL RIGHTS CASES Jim Crow Since before the turn of the century in the South, black Americans had been relegated to the status of second-class citizens, denied by law and legal subterfuge fundamental civil rights such as the right to vote, the right to free assembly, the... Read more
Voting Rights Act Voting Rights Act
Voting Rights Act of 1965 The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a sweeping federal law that seeks to prevent voting discrimination based on race, color, or membership in a language minority group. The act was passed in the aftermath of one of the more violent episodes in the history of the civil rights... Read more
Victims rights Victims rights
VICTIMS' RIGHTS At the end of the twentieth century, a broad movement supporting the rights of victims of crime prospered in the United States. This victims' rights movement has many facets, including both liberal and conservative components. Sometimes it conflicts with the prosecution, and... Read more

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