The Importance Of Civil Rights

Citizens, black man has no rights in which the White man is bound to respect ( Dred Scott 1857) Page15)

Civil liberties are what you would consider your basic rights, and also freedom that should be guaranteed. For example, what is stated in the Constitution or the Bill of Rights.

Many people are honored for their leadership, impact, legacy, achievements and hospitality. At Columbus State University, there are multiple people that should be considered for an honor. Mary Blackmon started women’s athletics at CSU. Frank Brown , former president at CSU, transformed CSU from a commuter college into the massive university it is today. Thomas Whitley was the founding president at CSU. Carson McCullers was a well-known author in Columbus. All these people did something great for CSU. However, I believe John Townsend, the first African American student at CSU, is the one who deserves a statue .

Jury duty is a constitutional and fundamental right guaranteed to American citizens. Jury service is a way for citizens to directly participate in the judicial system. Jury duty and jury trials have been around for so long that people take it for granted. The jury was one of the factors that caused the American Revolution because the English common law system did not allow alleged criminals to have the sixth amendment rights that the United States has today. In fact, The Declaration of Independence charged that King George III deprived the colonists of a trial by jury (United States Federal Judicial Center, n.d). The Founding Fathers of the United States established the role of the jury and the right to trial by jury in most criminal and civil cases in the Constitution but that clearly cannot be fulfilled unless there are people serving on a jury.

The First Amendment guarantees U.S citizen with basic freedoms such as religion, speech, press, assembly and petition. In the 2010 case between Salazar and Buono, the First Amendment was put on trial in the Supreme Court Justice. The Supreme Court examined whether a religious cross, meant to honor World War I Veterans, violated the Establishment Clause in the First Amendment. Frank Buono, a former preserve employee, filed the lawsuit to get rid of the religious cross in the reserve permanently, stating that it was built on federal land thus creating a sense of favoritism of one religion over another in government. By establishing favoritism towards Christianity the U.S government violated the Establishment Clause. This paper analyzes the rhetorical situation between the governments interference within religion

When citizens of society break federal and state laws they face a punishment known as “ jail” or “ prison”, which purpose is to not only to serve as a punishment but to also act as a program designed to help convicts enter back in to the society as a better person. As citizens of the United States we have civil rights granted to us from the U.S. Constitution that are not meant to just be taken away from us whenever the correctional system feels like it. Many people believe that once a person is put into prison that all of the prisoners’ rights are stripped form them, which is an untrue statement. Some of the basic prisoner laws state that all prisoners must be respected to and their life valued as a human being, it should be no type or

Imagine being in a time where people had slaves, and you have to give up your seat to a white person on a bus,knowing if you didn't you would get punnised siverly.Back then when people had slaves it was very hard for them, and the world was full of disagreement, but in those hard times a few people were brave enough to stand out and stand up for thier

When the framers decided to create the Constitution, it was meant to be made for the people by the people. The difficult part about it was, as time went by, people were given more rights and were unjustly discriminated because of the past. This has happened in many cases throughout our countries history. Civil rights are a big part of our society and the past shows many ways that the civil rights of the citizens were taken from. In Unit 2 of the course, we learned three different ways the government can discriminate the people of the United States and the meticulous process it takes the government to discriminate. The different ways to discriminate are separated into three different classifications which are, Suspect classification, Quasi-Suspect classification, and Nonsuspect classification. Even though everyone has civil rights the government can sometimes discriminates to ensure the safety of the society. Which rarely happens. Discrimination is a big part of our government and well never be solved, but there are many reasons behind the most complicated subject in our society.

“All Persons born or naturalized in the U.S are citizens… no state can deprive any person of life, liberty, and property, without due process,” (Source 3). This means that no matter what the color of your skin is, you have natural born rights. This supports that it’s bad because many white people don’t allow African-Americans to have Liberty or Property. “Representative shall be apportioned among the several states according to their respective numbers,” (Source 3). This means that no matter the color of your skin, you can be a senator by winning the most votes. This supports that if an African-American is removed from his/her position can’t be according to law. This is true but, may say that White people founded

The civil rights impacted the world in so many great ways. Without them everyone would be separated because of their race and other people's ignorance. Civil rights helped in ways nobody can explain and the Supreme Court has helped with making all of this possible. The Supreme Court has made many decisions to impact civil rights: Dred Scott vs. Sanford, Shelley vs. Kraemer, and Brown vs. Board of Education.

It is important because during the 60’s the Civil Rights movement was making little to no progress. So RFK giving examples of blacks making strides out side of the United States served as an encouragement and serve as a way to speed up the process of giving equal rights to the Blacks in the United States.

The issue of civil rights was a major one throughout the post-Civil War Reconstruction period and remained so throughout the period leading up to the Korean War in the 1960s. The civil rights struggle was caused largely by southern states’ treatment of African Americans. Slavery was a rampant practice in the pre-Civil War south, and even those African Americans who managed to obtain their freedom were not treated as equals to other citizens in the southern states. Free black men did not have the right to vote, own property, marry, or testify against other African Americans. After the Civil War, when slavery was abolished, there was a push for African Americans to gain equal rights to their white counterparts. This civil rights push lasted

Civil rights has to be up for debate on many levels unless we go to the simplest form of discussion, you can do is you want as long as it does not interfere with anybody else's right to do what they want. Is it my civil right to use drugs anyway I wish? I'm not hurting anyone else Is it my civil right to smoke in my car with my child in the backseat, will my child get cancer because of me? Is it my civil right to use a bathroom marked for the opposite sex? Should a woman and her five-year-old daughter have to pass a grown man in a bathroom? When someone decides to interfere with somebody else's civil rights, cooler heads should prevail.I do like the phrase, reasonable accommodations. In a public place we can easily have men's, woman's, and

The Chosen topic I have decided to do my research paper on is Civil Rights. The reason that I have chosen this topic is because it plays some big roles within our society. Civil rights allows for every individual to get the same equal treatment whether it be racial, marriage, employment, education, and housing.

D’Souza said: “Africans were chosen for slavery in part because they were considered as inferior as a race” (D’Souza, page467).