civil rights legislation
Anti-discrimination statutes enacted
Civil rights legislation refers to laws enacted to protect individuals from discrimination and guarantee equal treatment regardless of race, sex, religion, disability, or other characteristics.
In the United States, the term most often evokes the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965, landmark federal laws dismantling legal segregation and protecting voting access.
The movement pushed for stronger civil rights legislation.
- racial minoritiesGroups outnumbered by dominant ethnicity
- NAACPCivil rights advocacy organization
- Americans with Disabilities ActCivil rights law for disabled
- Title IXFederal educational equity law
- equal payMatching compensation regardless of identity
Brown v. Board of Education · women · ACLU · anti-discrimination laws · hate crimes · senior citizens · people with disabilities · indigenous peoples · Emancipation Proclamation · grassroots activism · ethnic minorities · immigrants · judicial review · desegregation · school busing · community organizers · whistleblowers · constitutional amendments
- Congressional Judiciaryconfirmation hearings, oversight hearings, subcommittees, committee chairs, subpoenas
civil rights legislationJim Crow laws
Post-Reconstruction racial separation statutes
apartheid laws · segregation laws · Nuremberg Laws · fugitive slave laws · Chinese Exclusion Act
civil rights legislationsocial custom
Expected communal behavior pattern
unwritten rules · gentleman's agreements · social convention · de facto segregation · cultural norms
civil rights legislationdeportation orders
Government commands to leave country
civility, civilian, civilize, civilization, civics, rights, rightly, rightful, righteous