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 Civil rights - Psychology Central
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.
In the United States, for example, laws protecting civil rights appear in the Constitution, in the amendments to the Constitution (particularly the 13th and 14th Amendments), in federal statutes, in state constitutions and statutes, and even in the ordinances of counties and cities.
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.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/American Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968)
Up through 1955 the civil rights movement in the South had largely been fought in courtrooms: while the NAACP had chapters throughout the South that attempted to register voters and protested discrimination, those efforts were often uncoordinated, while local authorities regularly harassed those organizations and the activists in them.
The civil rights movement has had a lasting impact on United States society, both in its tactics and in increased social and legal acceptance of civil rights.This focus on the years between 1955, when the Montgomery bus boycott began, and 1968, when Martin Luther King, Jr.
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 citizens of United States.
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 Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement
  March on Washington: Despite worries that few people would attend and that violence could erupt, civil rights organizers proceeded with this historic event that would come to symbolize the civil rights movement.
This case decided unanimously in 1954 that segregation was unconstitutional, overthrowing the 1896 Plessy v.
The strategy paid off, and in June the Senate voted to close debate; a few weeks later, it passed the most important piece of civil rights legislation in the nation's history, and on July 2, 1964, President Johnson signed it into law.
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American Civil Rights Movement (1896-1954) From Sterwiki 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.
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 Book Review Law and History Review, 19.1 The History Cooperative
Sarah Hart Brown's Standing against Dragons examines the careers of three white liberal lawyers--dissenters from the political mainstream, champions of the First Amendment--who lived in the American South during the era of the cold War and the Civil Rights Movement.
Their careers intersected in 1954 when all three appeared with clients in New Orleans where the House Un-American Activities Committee was conducting hearings as it investigated the Southern Conference Educational Fund.
For most of their lives, John Moreno Coe (1896–1973) lived in Florida, Clifford Judkins Durr (1899–1975) in Alabama, and Benjamin Eugene Smith (1927–1976) in Louisiana.
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