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    Civil rights: guidelines created to prevent people from being treated unfairly by government or other individuals. These were significant because it protects us so we aren’t mistreated Coverture: law that denies any form of a woman's identity that is different of their husband’s. This was significant because it enforced the idea that women needed men, and that women were like property. Equal employment opportunity commission: A Federal Agency created in 1965, which advocated for civil rights laws

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    2017 1 Civil Liberties vs. Civil Rights 2 Civil Liberties are basic rights and freedoms that we are guaranteed by the government. You can find them in the Bill of Rights and in the Constitution. Civil liberties are liberties that we as Americans feel safe to interpret on the daily basis. 3 Some civil liberties include, the right 4 for free speech, the right to privacy, the right to remain silent in a police interrogation, the right to be free from unreasonable searches of your home, the right to a

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    Civil Rights Movement

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    Introduction: This paper is about the blacks wanting equal rights like the whites have.Then everything gets out of hand.The fire truck hoses get used on people,the k-9 dogs go attack the people, people go to jail. King goes to jail and writes a report and gets out of jail. Finally, Birmingham takes down the “blacks only” and “whites only” signs from the bathroom and drinking fountains. Blacks now can use any bathroom and drinking fountain they want. The SCLC launched "Project C” (for Birmingham)

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    Civil liberties are constitutional rights which guarantee individual freedom of all citizens because it restricts the governmental interference from people’s life. Civil liberties are protected under the Bill of Rights. It provides the privacy to all citizens. It provides individual rights such as right to vote, right to free speech, right to keep and bear arms, right to remain silent when interrogated, right to fair court trial, right to own property, right to be protected from unreasonable searches

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    Civil rights have been a hot-button issue/topic in this country for decades. For many years people were treated differently because of either their skin color. These people had fewer job opportunities, were often paid less than their white counterparts, and even for a time were sent to separate and often worse schools, and were forced to use different bathrooms and drinking from separate water fountains in public. It was very difficult for blacks at this time in this country, but help would soon

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    Mississippi basketball team during the civil rights movement. The book is centered around their fight and their story during the civil rights movement. I plan on using this book to showcase their place in the civil rights movement. This goes hand and hand with my paper because it will show the effect the civil rights movement had on sports. Sarah Burns & David McMahon, Jackie Robinson, (Arlington, Virginia: 2016), Jackie Robinson

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    Sept/30/2017 Civil rights v. Civil Liberties Civil rights and civil liberties are the rights and freedom both made for good of communities and country. Both are introduced to benefit citizen of the country. A Civil right is mainly about the fair treatment with every person which is protected by the fourteenth amendment. “It was first introduced after civil right movement which was mainly about the true equality among African American who were mainly treated as slaves.” (1, FindLaw). But now the civil right

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    Civil Liberties and Rights The notion of Civil Liberties and Civil Rights in the United States have their origins before the creation of the country in the writings of the Enlightenment, which was the dominant cultural movement in the years leading up and shortly after the founding of the country. First laid down on paper by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence, the proclamation “all men are created equal” and are “endowed by their creator with certain, unalienable Rights, that amongst

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    in todays times because we are all support to be treated equal no matter what our heritages believe in. In the Title VI of the Civil Rights act of 1964, it clearly states that it prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, and national origin in programs and activist receiving federal assistance. Environmental racism have many things in common to the civil right activities looking back on time. Like the Warren County example, the way the protest played out are very similar to the way protests

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    issues of civil rights and civil liberties. Whether it be the debate about race, as seen in the horrendous days of slavery around the world or it be the continued dilemma today regarding the issue of a stance on gun control, civil rights and civil liberties, while very different continue to be two widely heated argumental subjects. It is, however, important to identify the difference between the two and the implications of each in a broader sense. Civil liberties are perhaps the most basic rights granted

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