civil rights laws
Anti-discrimination statutes
Civil rights laws are legislation protecting individuals from discrimination based on characteristics like race, sex, religion, or disability.
In American usage, the term typically evokes the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which outlawed segregation and employment discrimination: The restaurant was sued for violating civil rights laws.
Such laws establish legal remedies for unequal treatment in housing, voting, education, and public accommodations.
- separate but equalRacial segregation's constitutional fiction
- lunch counterCasual eatery with stools
- workplace diversityVaried employee demographics
- glass ceilingUnacknowledged limit blocking advancement
- equal protectionUniform legal treatment
disability access · racial equality · gender equality · equal pay · religious freedom · age discrimination · hate crime · Title VII · tenant protections · desegregation · special education services · marriage equality · fair housing · whistleblower protections · affirmative action
- regulationsrules, rule, regulations, regulation, law
- state lawsstate statutes, state code, state constitution, criminal code, WAC
- reformreform movement, reform movements, reform party, reformer, reformist
- city regulationsnoise ordinance, noise ordinances, building regulations, housing codes, health codes
- integrationintegration, synthesis, fusion, merging, unifying
- Social Policysocial welfare, welfare reform, public assistance, social security, social insurance
civil rights lawsJim Crow laws
Post-Reconstruction racial separation statutes
segregation laws · apartheid laws · Nuremberg Laws · fugitive slave laws · sodomy laws
civil rights lawssocial customs
Accepted communal behaviors
cultural norms · social conventions · unwritten rules · de facto segregation · tradition
civil, civility, civilian, civilize, civilized, civilization, civics, civic, right