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Civil rights movements are a worldwide series of political movements for equality before the law, that peaked in the 1960s.[citation needed] In many situations...

Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private...

and also the collective rights accorded to any minority group. Civil-rights movements often seek to ensure that individual rights are not denied on the...

The civil rights movement (1865–1896) aimed to eliminate racial discrimination against African Americans, improve their educational and employment opportunities...

The civil rights movement was a social movement and campaign from 1954 to 1968 in the United States to abolish legalized racial segregation, discrimination...

founded in 1897 in Berlin. A commonly stated goal among these movements is equal rights for LGBT people, often focusing on specific goals such as ending...

movement Civil rights movements, social and political movements This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Civil rights movement. If an...

government. In the United States of America, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Civil Rights Act enforced the 15th Amendment. The 24th Amendment ended...

Civil rights in the United States include noted legislation and organized efforts to abolish public and private acts of racial discrimination against Native...

Yugoslav Wars, and the Global War on Terrorism. The women's movement and civil rights movement during the 1950s and 1960s in the United States profoundly shaped...

humiliated or falsely charged American political opposition and civil rights movements with crimes. William Cornelius Sullivan was born on May 12, 1912...

"Long civil rights movement" is a historiographical argument regarding the timing and substance of the Civil Rights Movement, advanced by American historian...

human rights Human rights Human rights awards International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights LGBT rights by country LGBT social movements List of...

Commission on Civil Rights (CCR) is a bipartisan, independent commission of the United States federal government, created by the Civil Rights Act of 1957...

for civil rights movements and mutual aid networks for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The term arose in the broader civil rights...

Artistic movements: see list of art movements. Independence movements: see lists of active separatist movements and list of historical separatist movements Revolutionary...

Rights. The post-war era saw movements arising from specific groups experiencing a shortfall in their rights, such as feminism and the civil rights of...

The civil rights movement (1896–1954) was a long, primarily nonviolent action to bring full civil rights and equality under the law to all Americans. The...