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    Civil Rights Throughout Reconstruction‚ southern whites felt constantly threatened by legislation providing rights for former slaves. The Civil Rights Bill of 1875 was the last rights bill passed by congress during reconstruction. It protected all Americans’ (including blacks) access to public accommodations such as trains. With the threat of complete equality constantly looming‚ violence toward former slaves gradually increased in the years following the Civil War. Beatings and murders

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    Civil Rights Past and Present In 1776‚ the Founding Fathers outlined the framework on which this new country should be built on‚ freedom and the idea that all men are created equal. However at the time the men being referred to were white land owners. In 1863 Abraham Lincoln redefined the definition of all men referred to in the Declaration of Independence to include the slaves. In 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. is addressing the preverbal cashing of the check that Lincoln wrote 100 years before.

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    unknowing what your major rights are‚ they will be further explained. Civil rights are the rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality. Constitutional rights are also known as amendments‚ a list of rights of citizens. Some examples would be the first amendment - freedom of speech‚ press‚ assembly and religion; another example‚ the right to vote. These rights were made to ensure there would be no discrimination of the sexes‚ races‚ or religions. Individual rights refer to the liberties

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    diversity. You must include the correct title and date (where appropriate) and then provide a summary of each piece of legislation or code of practice that is identified. This could include: Equality Act‚ Human Rights Act‚ Inclusion policy. The Equalities Act (2010) This act is a combination of many old acts (race relations‚ sex discrimination and disability discrimination etc.) its two main purposes – to harmonise discrimination law and to strengthen the law to support the progress on equality. It

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    society. During the Civil Rights movement‚ Rosa Parks was a great example of someone who refused to accept the law and‚ because of it‚ laid a path to change. Rosa Parks refused to give her seat on a bus to a white man‚ as required by segregation laws in Alabama. Her actions resulted in a court case against racial laws that went all the way up to the Supreme Court. When the Court ruled bus segregation was unconstitutional‚ it was a turning point in the Civil Rights movement. There was no violence

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    entirely ineffectual. The murder of voting-rights activists in Philadelphia‚ Mississippi‚ gained national attention‚ along with numerous other acts of violence and terrorism. Finally‚ the unprovoked attack on March 7‚ 1965‚ by state troopers on peaceful marchers crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma‚ Alabama‚ en route to the state capitol in Montgomery‚ persuaded the President and Congress to overcome Southern legislators’ resistance to effective voting rights legislation. President Johnson issued

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    it comes to inciting social change. During the civil rights movement of the 1960s‚ artists openly addressed the issues of the day. In particular‚ music assisted those who were working to gain rights for African Americans. Freedom songs‚ usually adapted from the music of the black church‚ played an essential role maintaining courage‚ inspiring participation‚ and fostering a sense of community. This piece represents the fight to establish equal rights for African Americans in the United States in the

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    man who is idealized for supernatural powers and impossible achievements. The word hero has been misplaced in stereotypical conceptions and has lost its true meaning. The initial day of December 1955 coincidently was the initial launch of the civil rights movement‚ started by the mother‚ Rosa Parks. After a long day of work at a department store‚ where African-American Rosa Parks worked as a seamstress‚ she boarded the yellow and green Cleveland Avenue for home. She sat down in the fifth row‚

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    Common people got their right to raise question. It gives the power to throw question to the government directly and the concerned authority has to reply back within 30 days with proper explanation. It gives every citizen a fundamental right to seek information from any government department. The Law is applicable to all constitutional authorities‚ including the executive‚ legislature and judiciary; any institution or body established or constituted by an act of Parliament or a state

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    chanted loudly‚ fearing that the results of the election are going to destroy the country we live in. Americans around the nation are fearful of that their civil rights as a citizen are going to be taken away‚ and that family and/or friends are going to be deported after Trump is sworn into office. These people across the US are using their right of freedom of speech and assembly in these protests that are going on. During protests‚ people

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