Definition of civil rights. Meaning of civil rights. Synonyms of civil rights

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Definition of civil rights

civil rights
Frank-law Frank"-law`, n. [Frank free + law.] (Eng. Law) The liberty of being sworn in courts, as a juror or witness; one of the ancient privileges of a freeman; free and common law; -- an obsolete expression signifying substantially the same as the American expression civil rights. --Abbot.

Meaning of civil rights from wikipedia

- The civil rights movement was a social movement and campaign from 1954 to 1968 in the United States to abolish legalized racial segregation, discrimination...
- Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private...
- The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 88–352, 78 Stat. 241, enacted July 2, 1964) is a landmark civil rights and labor...
- The Civil Rights Act of 1957 was the first federal civil rights legislation p****ed by the United States Congress since the Civil Rights Act of 1875. The...
- National Civil Rights Museum is a complex of museums and historic buildings in Memphis, Tennessee; its exhibits trace the history of the civil rights movement...
- 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...
- The Civil Rights Act of 1875, sometimes called the Enforcement Act or the Force Act, was a United States federal law enacted during the Reconstruction...
- Wikisource has original text related to this article: Civil Rights Act of 1866 The Civil Rights Act of 1866 (14 Stat. 27–30, enacted April 9, 1866, reenacted...
- Civil rights leaders are influential figures in the promotion and implementation of political freedom and the expansion of personal civil liberties and...
- Wikisource has original text related to this article: Civil Rights Cases The Civil Rights Cases, 109 U.S. 3 (1883), were a group of five landmark cases...