civil rights
Fundamental legal freedoms
Civil rights are the rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality.
The term typically refers to protections against discrimination based on race, sex, religion, or other characteristics: the civil rights movement, civil rights legislation.
In American usage, civil rights often specifically evokes the Black American struggle for equality in the 1950s and 60s.
She dedicated her career to civil rights law.
Rhythmic group walk
- MontgomeryAlabama's seat of government
- SelmaAlabama civil rights city
- boycottOrganized economic protest
- NAACPCivil rights advocacy organization
MLK · Rosa Parks · sit-ins · Freedom Riders · integration · segregation · Jim Crow · Brown v. Board
Pleading for a cause
- grassrootsCommon people as political base
- organizingSystematically putting in order
- campaigningActively pursuing political support
- lobbyingAdvocating to decision-makers
demonstration · protest · rally · picketing · boycott · sit-in · vigil · resistance
Inherent physical or structural makeup
- amendmentChange to official text
- legislationOfficial enactment of statutes
- due processGuaranteed judicial fairness
- equal protectionUniform legal treatment
discrimination · legal remedy · plaintiff · defendant · Supreme Court · jurisprudence · statute · litigation
Absence of unjust constraint
- emancipationRelease from legal bondage
- enfranchisementGranting citizenship rights
- liberationRelease from constraint
- self-determinationControl over one's fate
suffrage · free speech · free assembly · autonomy · agency · franchise · citizenship · naturalization
Impartial treatment or ownership value
- fairnessJust and equal treatment
- non-discriminationEqual treatment regardless of difference
- inclusivityPractice of welcoming all
- equal opportunityUnbiased chance for all
racial equality · equal treatment · anti-racism · desegregation · affirmative action · equal pay · accessibility · universal suffrage
march
Rhythmic group walk
- MontgomeryAlabama's seat of government
- SelmaAlabama civil rights city
- boycottOrganized economic protest
NAACP · MLK · Rosa Parks · sit-ins · Freedom Riders · integration · segregation · Jim Crow · Brown v. Board · Little Rock Nine
advocacy
Pleading for a cause
- grassrootsCommon people as political base
- organizingSystematically putting in order
- campaigningActively pursuing political support
lobbying · demonstration · protest · rally · picketing · boycott · sit-in · vigil · resistance · solidarity
constitution
Inherent physical or structural makeup
- amendmentChange to official text
- legislationOfficial enactment of statutes
- due processGuaranteed judicial fairness
equal protection · discrimination · legal remedy · plaintiff · defendant · Supreme Court · jurisprudence · statute · litigation · Brown v. Board
liberty
Absence of unjust constraint
- emancipationRelease from legal bondage
- enfranchisementGranting citizenship rights
- liberationRelease from constraint
self-determination · suffrage · free speech · free assembly · autonomy · agency · franchise · citizenship · naturalization · freedom of movement
equity
Impartial treatment or ownership value
- fairnessJust and equal treatment
- non-discriminationEqual treatment regardless of difference
- inclusivityPractice of welcoming all
equal opportunity · racial equality · equal treatment · anti-racism · desegregation · affirmative action · equal pay · accessibility · universal suffrage · parity
- 1960sBeatles, Star Trek, Vietnam War, hippie movement, space race
- comparative historycolonialism, imperialism, revolutions, modernization, industrialization
- Racial Justiceracial justice, racial equality, anti-racism, desegregation, NAACP
- historypast events, historian, epochs, era, epoch
- history termsempire, dynasty, colonialism, Renaissance, Enlightenment
- rightsright, immunity, liberty, constitutional guarantees, fundamental freedoms
civil rightsoppression
Unjust exercise of power
discrimination · segregation · disenfranchisement · slavery · Jim Crow
civil rightsJim Crow era
Period of American racial segregation
segregation era · white supremacy · redlining · voter suppression
civil, civic, rights, civilian, civilization, uncivil, civility, civics, civilians