civil rights

Examples of civil rights in the following topics:

• The Civil Rights Acts

  • The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed forms of discrimination against women and minorities.
  • In a civil rights speech on June 11, 1963, President John F.
  • The Civil Rights Act was followed by the Voting Rights Act, signed into law by President Johnson in 1965.
  • Kennedy, who called for the passage of a civil rights bill.
  • Compare and contrast the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act

• Jim Crow and the Civil Rights Movement

  • The Civil Rights Movement aimed to outlaw racial discrimination against black Americans, particularly in the South.
  • The African American Civil Rights Movement refers to the social movements in the United States aimed at outlawing racial discrimination against black Americans and restoring voting rights to them.
  • The Civil Rights Movement generally lasted from 1955 to 1968 and was particularly focused in the American South.
  • Board of Education decision in 1954, civil rights organization broadened their strategy to emphasize "direct action"—primarily boycotts, sit-ins, Freedom Rides, marches and similar tactics that relied on mass mobilization, nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience.
  • Civil Rights Movement.

• Legislative Change

  • The consistent struggle of the Civil Rights Movement and efforts of hundreds of thousands anonymous African Americans forced legislators to enact a series of civil rights legislation in the 1950s and 1960s.
  • The Civil Rights Act of 1957, primarily a voting rights bill, was the first civil rights legislation enacted by Congress in the United States since the Reconstruction Era following the American Civil War.
  • The goal of the 1957 Civil Rights Act was to ensure that all Americans could exercise their right to vote.
  • Although passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 seemed to indicate a growing federal commitment to the cause of civil rights, the legislation was limited.
  • Johnson helped secure passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

• Civil Rights and Voting Rights

  • The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 were landmark pieces of legislation that addressed major forms of discrimination.
  • The Civil Rights Act of 1964, enacted on July 2, 1964, was a landmark piece of legislation.
  • Kennedy called for a civil rights act in his speech about civil rights on June 11, 1963.
  • The Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act changed the lives of African Americans and transformed society in many ways.
  • Examine the passage and significance of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Examples of Social Movements

• Civil Rights Act

  • The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed major forms of discrimination against African Americans and women, including racial segregation.
  • White-only restaurants are an example of the type of discrimination that was outlawed as a result of the Civil Rights Act.
  • Expanded the Civil Rights Commission established by the earlier Civil Rights Act of 1957 with additional powers, rules and procedures.
  • Required compilation of voter-registration and voting data in geographic areas specified by the Commission on Civil Rights.
  • This was of crucial importance to civil rights activists who could not get a fair trial in state courts.

• The Emergence of the Civil Rights Movement

  • While not the first sit-in of the Civil Rights Movement, the Greensboro sit-ins were an instrumental action, and also the most well-known sit-ins of the Civil Rights Movement.
  • A critical Supreme Court decision of this phase of the Civil Rights Movement was the 1954 Brown v.
  • Other noted legislative achievements during this critical phase of the civil rights movement were:
  • Scenes from Civil Rights March in Washington, D.C. in August 1963.
  • Summarize the African American Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s.

• The Rights of the Accused

  • An important postwar case was the Civil Rights Cases (1883), in which the constitutionality of the Civil Rights Act of 1875 was at issue.
  • The rights of the accused, include the right to a fair trial; due process; the right to seek redress or a legal remedy; and rights of participation in civil society and politics such as freedom of association, the right to assemble, the right to petition, the right of self-defense, and the right to vote.
  • Civil and political rights form the original and main part of international human rights.
  • Civil and political rights are not codified to be protected, although most democracies worldwide do have formal written guarantees of civil and political rights.
  • Civil rights are considered to be natural rights.

• Individualism

  • Individualism is a philosophy that stresses the value and rights of the individual vis-a-vis society and government.
  • Individualism, sometimes closely associated with certain variants of anarchism or liberalism, typically takes it for granted that individuals know best and that public authority or society has no right to interfere in a person's decision-making process, unless a very compelling need to do so arises (and maybe not even in those circumstances).
  • Civil liberties are rights and freedoms that provide an individual specific rights such as the freedom from slavery and forced labor, freedom from torture and death, the right to liberty and security, right to a fair trial, the right to defend one's self, the right to own and bear arms, the right to privacy, freedom of conscience, freedom of expression, freedom of assembly and association, and the right to marry and have a family.
  • Civil libertarianism is not a complete ideology; rather, it is a collection of views on the specific issues of civil liberties and civil rights.
  • Because of this, a civil libertarian outlook is compatible with many other political philosophies, and civil libertarianism is found on both the right and left in modern politics.

• The Civil War Amendments

  • The Civil War Amendments protected equality for emancipated slaves by banning slavery, defining citizenship, and ensuring voting rights.
  • Known collectively as the Civil War Amendments, they were designed to ensure the equality for recently emancipated slaves.
  • It also confirmed the right to due process, life, liberty, and property.
  • It banned any person who had engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the U.S. from holding civil or military office.
  • These methods were employed around the country to undermine the Civil War Amendments and set the stage for Jim Crow conditions and for the Civil Rights movement.