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	Civil Rights Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Civil Rights Act of 1866 aimed to buttress Civil Rights Laws to protect freedmen and to grant full citizenship to those born on U.S. soil except Indians.
		Civil Rights Act of 1871 was also known at the time as the "Ku Klux Klan Act" because one of main reasons for its passage was to protect southern fls from the KKK by providing a civil remedy for abuses then being committed in the south.
		Civil Rights Act of 1991 provided for the right to trial by jury on discrimination claims and introduced the possibility of emotional distress damages, while limiting the amount that a jury could award.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Civil_Rights_Act (296 words)

	civil rights. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		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.
		In the United States civil rights are usually thought of in terms of the specific rights guaranteed in the Constitution: freedom of religion, of speech, and of the press, and the rights to due process of law and to equal protection under the law.
		The 1866 act was of dubious constitutionality and was reenacted in 1870 only after the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ci/civilrig.html (620 words)

	Civil Rights Cases - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Civil Rights Cases, 109 U.S.) were a group of five similar cases consolidated into one issue for the United States Supreme Court to review.
		The difficulty has been to compel a recognition of their legal right to take that rank, and to secure the enjoyment of privileges belonging, under the law, to them as a component part of the people for whose welfare and happiness government is ordained."
		The decision that the Reconstruction-era Civil Rights Acts were unconstitutional has not been overturned; on the contrary, the Supreme Court reaffirmed this limited reading of the Fourteenth Amendment in United States v.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Civil_Rights_Cases (424 words)

	Civil Rights Act of 1960 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Civil Rights Act of 1960 established federal inspection of local voter registration rolls and introduced penalties for anyone who obstructed someone's attempt to register to vote or actually vote.
		In spite of the two Eisenhower civil rights acts (see: Civil Rights Act of 1957), only an extra 3% fl voters were added to the electoral roll for the 1960 election.
		Neither is considered significant legislation, and they did little to impress civil rights leaders.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1960 (124 words)

	National Civil Rights Museum - About the Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Between 1866 and 1875, Congress passed several civil rights acts to enforce the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, allowing the federal government to impose heavy penalties for violations.
		The Civil Rights Act of 1866: This act granted fl citizens equal rights to contract, to sue and be sued, to marry, travel, and own property.
		This was the last piece of civil rights legislation passed by the United States Congress until 1957.
	www.civilrightsmuseum.org /gallery/civilrights.asp (319 words)

	Prentice Hall Documents Library: Civil Rights Acts
		Though known popularly as the Civil Rights Acts of 1871, this refers to the Enforcement Act of February 28, 1871, which amended the Enforcement Act of 1870, passed by Congress to overturn state laws preventing African Americans from voting in the South.
		The Enforcement Act of April 20, 1871, known as the "Ku Klux Klan Act," allowed president to use the militia and to suspend the right of habeas corpus in times when public safety was threatened, as by the wave of organized violence then spreading throughout the South.
		The Voting Rights Act of 1965 established a system of federal registrars, under the direction of the U.S. Attorney General, to replace state officials in localities in which fewer than 50% of the adult population had voted in the previous general election.
	cwx.prenhall.com /bookbind/pubbooks/dye4/medialib/docs/civrit.htm (1155 words)

	LII: Law about...Civil Rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Examples of civil rights are freedom of speech, press, assembly, the right to vote, freedom from involuntary servitude, and the right to equality in public places.
		Discrimination occurs when the civil rights of an individual are denied or interfered with because of their membership in a particular group or class.
		The existence of civil rights and liberties are recognized internationally by numerous agreements and declarations.
	www.law.cornell.edu /topics/civil_rights.html (720 words)

	The 1960 Civil Rights Act
		Following the 1957 Civil Rights Act, Eisenhower introduced another civil rights bill in late 1958, which was his reaction to a violent outbreak of bombings against churches and schools in the South.
		Though Eisenhower is not automatically linked to the civil rights issue, his contribution, including the 1957 Act, is important as it pushed the whole civil rights issue into the White House.
		The act barely touched on anything new and Eisenhower, at the end of his term of presidency, was accused of passing the thorny problem of voters’ constitutional rights over to his successor.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /1960_civil_rights_act.htm (341 words)

	Civil RIghts
		Civil rights in America actually began with the adoption of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the constitution, which ended slavery and freed fls in theory.
		The Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1875 were passed guaranteeing the rights of fls in the courts and access to public accommodations.
		The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is historically significant because it stood and stands for a defining piece of civil rights legislation.
	home.olemiss.edu /~trholema/CivilRIghts.html (3973 words)

	Monroe v. Pape (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The object of the act was, not to prevent illegal exactions, but to forbid the execution of state laws, which, by the act itself, are made void.
		The Government's brief contended that, inasmuch as the Civil Rights statutes were passed to enforce the Fourteenth Amendment, they should be read as coextensive with it: "under color" of state law should be coincident with "State action" as this Court had developed the "State action" concept.
		Section 301 of the 1960 Act requires every "officer of election" to retain and preserve during a specified period all records and papers which come into his possession relating to acts requisite to voting at an election wherein candidates for designated federal offices are voted for.
	supct.law.cornell.edu /supct/search/display.html?terms=constitutional%20or%20unconstitutional&url=/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0365_0167_ZX.html (13266 words)

	The 1957 Civil Rights Act
		The Civil Rights Act of 1957 was introduced in Eisenhower’s presidency and was the act that kick-started the civil rights legislative programme that was to include the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
		He never publicly gave support to the civil rights movement believing that you could not force people to change their beliefs; such changes had to come from the heart of the people involved, not as the result of legislation from Washington.
		The Civil Rights Act of 1957 maintained the mood of the bill - it aimed to increase the number of registered fl voters and stated its support for such a move.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /1957_civil_rights_act.htm (788 words)

	Civil Rights - Law and History/The Establishment of the Civil Rights Division (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Civil Rights Act of 1957 created the authority for establishing a civil rights office at the Department of Justice.
		In 1957, Congress passed federal civil rights laws providing for some voting rights enforcement and criminal civil rights violations prohibited by laws passed in the 1870s.
		As time went on, more civil rights acts were passed expanding the rights that the Division's lawyers would enforce.
	www.usdoj.gov /kidspage/crt/crtbegin.htm (132 words)

	Civil Right Acts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The first two acts gave fls the rights to be treated as citizens in legal actions, particularly to sue and be sued and to own property.
		These rights were also guaranteed by the 14th Amendment (1868) to the Constitution, which conferred citizenship on the former slaves; and the 15th Amendment (1870), which declared it illegal to deprive any citizen of the franchise because of race.
		The Civil Rights Act of 1875 further guaranteed fls the right to use public accommodations, but this legislation was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1883.
	www.rlc.dcccd.edu /annex/comm/english/mah8420/CivilRightsActs.htm (350 words)

	H-Net Review: Nahfiza Ahmed on The Making of Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement
		Having dealt extensively with the reasons for the failure of post-war liberalism to advance civil rights for fls, Badger concludes that this was relatively unimportant to the eventual rise of the civil rights movement.
		Civil rights activists claimed that the memorial was continuing the "Confederate Myth" which tended to gloss over the fact that the South was defeated and that emancipation was the result of that defeat.
		The civil rights movement was an opportunity for both fls and whites to engage in new forms of protest which ultimately sought the fulfillment of the promises of American democracy.
	www.h-net.msu.edu /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=12430879374059 (3456 words)

	Understanding Your Voting Rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Because this guarantee has been threatened in the past, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was enacted to ensure that no one could prevent any citizen from freely exercising their right to vote.
		The Civil Rights Bureau is charged with the task of ensuring that discrimination is not tolerated in any area, including voting.
		The Civil Rights Acts of 1957, 1960, and 1964 attempted to address the racial discrimination that was plaguing this country, and included provisions for securing and protecting the right to vote.
	www.oag.state.ny.us /family/kids/crime/voting.html (1937 words)

	Civil Rights Cases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Civil Rights Cases were a series of important U.S. Supreme Court Cases decided in 1883.
		In particular, the Court ruled that the 14th Amendment prohibited only government violations of civil rights, not the denial of civil rights by individuals unaided by the state.The attempt by Congress to legislate these private acts exceeded its power of enforcement under theFourteenth Amendment.
		These cases essentially put a formal end to any attempts by Republicans to ensure the civil rights offls, and ushered in the mass denial of civil rights to fls until the 1960s.
	www.therfcc.org /civil-rights-cases-48909.html (175 words)

	OD Board - History of the "Civil Rights" Acts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The act declared that all persons born in the United States were now citizens, without regard to race, color, or previous condition.
		Persons who denied these rights to former slaves were guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction faced a fine not exceeding $1,000, or imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both.
		The Immigration Act of 1965: Capstone of the Civil Rights Movement!
	www.originaldissent.com /forums/showthread.php?t=4545 (426 words)

	Civil Rights Acts and Other Remedies
		The most important provisions were that fls were declared citizens and granted equal rights to contracts, suits, access to trials, purchases and properties, with penalties for violations of these rights.
		It also gave the right to sue for personal damages; gave federal courts exclusive jurisdiction over all cases arising under the act and made it a misdemeanor to bar any qualified person from serving as a grand or petit juror.
		It gave additional aid to the civil rights division in the US Dept. of Justice and empowered the Attorney General to institute suits on behalf of fls who were denied the vote in federal elections.
	www.nathanielturner.com /civilrightsactsotherremedies.htm (442 words)

	Civil Rights Act of 1991
		Civil Rights Act of 1991 102d CONGRESS 1ST SESSION H.R.1 To amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to restore and strengthen civil rights laws that ban discrimination in employment, and for other purposes.
		This Act may be cited as the "Civil Rights Act of 1991." SEC.2.
		--All Federal laws protecting the civil rights of persons shall be interpreted consistent with the intent of such laws, and shall be broadly construed to effectuate the purpose of such laws to provide equal opportunity and provide effective remedies.
	usinfo.state.gov /usa/infousa/laws/majorlaw/civil91.htm (1230 words)

	Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, an important American lobbying organization for civil rights legislation in the last half of the 20th century.
		The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR) was formed in 1950 in response to the federal government's elimination of the Fair Employment Practices Committee (FEPC), an agency that had been created to end racially discriminatory hiring practices in the federal government.
		Out of that conference, which was held on January 15, 1950, and was attended by 4000 African Americans representing over 100 civil rights groups, came the LCCR, a broad coalition dedicated to lobbying Congress for the passage of civil rights laws and serving as an information clearinghouse for its member organizations.
	www.africanaonline.com /orga_leadership_conference.htm (305 words)

	FindLaw for Legal Professionals - Case Law, Federal and State Resources, Forms, and Code (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The federal causes of action against the individual defendants were based on allegations of conspiracy and intent to deprive petitioners of their constitutional rights of free speech and assembly, and to be secure from the deprivation of life and liberty without due process of law.
		Section 1988 does not enjoy the independent stature of an "Act of Congress providing for the protection of civil rights," 28 U.S.C. Rather, as is plain on the face of the statute, the section is intended to complement the various acts which do create federal causes of action for the violation of federal civil rights.
		Likewise in Lewis, where a sheriff was held to be liable for the civil rights violations of his deputies in light of state law which imposed such liability - a decision which also rested apparently upon 1988, although that section was not specifically cited - the cause of action was properly based on 1983.
	caselaw.lp.findlaw.com /cgi-bin/getcase.pl?navby=case&court=us&vol=411&invol=693 (8321 words)

	Civil Rights Act 1964
		The Vice Chairman shall act as Chairman in the absence or disability of the Chairman or in the event of a vacancy in that office.
		The Director is authorized to appoint, subject to the civil service laws and regulations, such other personnel as may be necessary to enable the Service to carry out its functions and duties, and to fix their compensation in accordance with the Classification Act of 1949, as amended.
		If any provision of this Act or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the remainder of the Act and the application of the provision to other persons not similarly situated or to other circumstances shall not be affected thereby.
	usinfo.state.gov /usa/infousa/laws/majorlaw/civilr19.htm (6221 words)

	Civil Rights Acts of 1866, 1870, 1871, 1875
		And be it further enacted, That any person who shall knowingly and wilfully obstruct, hinder, or prevent any officer, or other person charged with the execution of any warrant or process issued under the provisions of this act...
		Civil Rights Act of 1870 (The Enforcement Act), 16 Stat.
		Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all citizens of the United States who are or shall be otherwise qualified by law to vote at any election...
	aalto.arch.ksu.edu /jwkplan/law/Civil%20Rights%20Acts%20of%201866,%201870,%201871,%201875.htm (175 words)

	National Civil Rights Museum
		Once you have a basic understanding of this historical period, you will be able to participate much more fully when the class focuses on the speeches, writings, people and events which comprise the U.S. Civil Rights Movement during its most active years, the period of the 1950's and 1960's.
		Civil Rights Acts (1866-1875) (Note: These appear to give fls full rights, but the laws were never effective.
		Elanore was the spouse of President Roosevelt and was an important American historical figure in her own right.
	www.lclark.edu /~krauss/diversity98/civilrightsmuseum.html (1076 words)

	THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1991
		Atonio (1989), a five-member Court majority implicitly overturned its earlier interpretation of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act in Griggs v.
		In this act, Congress rejects the Court's holding in Wards Cove and places the burden of proving that its employment practices do not discriminate squarely on the defendant.
		This Act may be cited as the "Civil Rights Act of 1991."
	www.unl.edu /ashavers/cra1991.htm (550 words)

	Civil Rights Movement
		That they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness, meant that everyone has the same rights and equality.
		The NAACP and Martin Luther King Jr., and many other were leaders of the civil rights movement that help secure the legislation, such as the Civil Rights Acts, and in the Integration of public transportation, schools, and jobs.
		The origins of the modern civil rights movement can be tracked back to the movement of millions of African Americans form the rural South to the urban centers of the South and the North.
	library.thinkquest.org /C004391F (393 words)

	DOJ: JMD: MPS: Functions Manual: Civil Rights Division (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Civil Rights Division was established in the Department of Justice by the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
		In addition, the Division is charged with all departmental responsibilities under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA); the ADA assures equal opportunity for individuals with disabilities in employment, public accommodations and services, transportation, and telecommunications.
		Prosecute violations of criminal statutes which prohibit specified acts of interference with federally protected rights and activities, such as conspiracies to interfere with or deny a certain individual or group of individuals the exercise of these rights.
	www.usdoj.gov /jmd/mps/manual/crt.htm (320 words)

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