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    Revolution “a sudden, complete or marked change in something”(Dictionary.com). The Civil Rights Movement sparked a reaction in the country. The idea of allowing African Americans full rights and privileges left white Americans to brutality and discrimination. “In 1954, Medgar Evers became the first state field secretary of the NAACP in Mississippi.” He was a civil rights activist, that “fought to end the racial injustice he experienced growing up in the South.”(Biography.com). He was later murdered

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    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

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    In America, laws are the foundation of our society and livelihood, these are rights given to the people that can not be taken away. These civil rights and liberties are things that can’t be imposed on legally or else the government would have to get involved. If they are there usually are consequences the times they aren’t are when multiple people either don’t care or it is the norm of the time. This really comes into play when talking about women or black people, these two cases are seen like this

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    The civil rights movement was a struggle that southern blacks went through to fight for equality and the same civil rights as white people. In the years 1960-1965, their lives were filled with segregation and discrimination. They had many goals to achieve, but their right to vote was the biggest of all. Southern blacks voting rights were important in this time period because it did not follow the 15th amendment which was that “the right of citizens of the United States vote shall not be denied or

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    discuss when and why the Cold War ended. 2. Discuss the origins of the Vietnam War, the course of the war over thirty years in the 1940s, and wars' impact on the United States, both at home and in terms of foreign policy. 3. Write an essay on the civil rights movement since 1953 in which you discuss the major factors that have contributed to its success and its major gains. Be sure to discuss more than one group and to cite examples from each decade of the 1950s through the 1990s. 4. Discuss the reasons

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    What are civil rights? Civil rights are the rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality. Our Country has not honored these rights to their full extent throughout the years. For example, all the times African American people have been beaten/attacked for no reason, or LGBT people. These things happen frequently, when in reality, they should not. Many worse things are happening in our world and someone's gender, sexuality, or race should not affect how anyone is treated.

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    in a rapidly changing and disunified country. This is where our civil sequences: Liberties and Rights, keep our country intact. 1 Both Civil Liberties and Rights are granted and defined in the Constitution. We must continue enforcing our civil sequences to maintain order for ourselves, our states,

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    1st Question: Civil Liberties and Civil Rights   Civil Liberties are the freedoms that are given to us by our democratic government. Freedoms which include: freedom of press, freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of conscience, freedom of assembly, and lastly the right to live. On the other hand, Civil Rights are privileges that include: freedom of speech, freedom of press, freedom of assembly,  and lastly the right to vote these rights apply to everyone no matter what ethnicity or gender

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    We as American’s have certain rights available to us as citizens of the United States of America. These rights are known as our civil rights. Civil Rights are enforceable right or privilege, which if interfered with by another gives rise to an action for injury. According to Wikipedia, “Civil and Political Rights are a class of rights that protect individual’s freedom from infringement by government, social organizations and private individuals.” (Wikipedia) It is also describes how far we have come

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    Sharifian 01 Oct. 2017 Civil rights and civil liberties Every citizen of the country is bounded and benefited with the freedom of Civil rights and Civil liberty. Civil right is the right of the citizen to be equally and fairly treated by the government, written in the 14th Amendment. Civil right moment was mainly focused only on the slaved, African American people. Then civil liberties firstly, not only protected the rights of African American people, it also included the right of gay, lesbian and female

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