progress, or lack of it, toward civil rights in the 50 states is reported in an impressive 689-page compilation issued last week by the United States Commission on Civil Rights.

One purpose of the change was to attain sympathetic enforcement of rights insured by the Civil War amendments against state interference.

The American Civil Liberties Union ( ACLU ) is a nonpartisan non-profit organization whose stated mission is " to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States.

African-American Civil Rights Movement ( 1955 – 1968 ) | Civil rights activists at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, 1963

An American Civil rights activist, Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968 at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.

The influence of Jefferson's doctrine of states ' rights reverberated right up to the Civil War and beyond.

In the late 1960s discrimination against the Catholic minority in electoral boundaries, voting rights, and the allocation of public housing led organisations such as Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association ( NICRA ) to mount a non-violent campaign for change.

* Civil rights movement, an anti-racism campaign

Al Sharpton, former Pentecostal minister, now a Baptist minister and Civil rights leader, during his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004 said that asking whether gays or lesbians should be able to get married was insulting: " That's like saying you give blacks, or whites, or Latinos the right to shack up – but not get married [...] It's like asking ' do I support black marriage or white marriage '...

Civil Rights Act may refer to several acts in the history of civil rights in the United States, including:

* Civil Rights Act of 1866, extending the rights of emancipated slaves by stating that any person born in the United States regardless of race is a U. S. citizen.

* Herman Badillo ( 1951 ), Civil rights activist and the first Puerto Rican elected to the U. S. Congress

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The 1957 act for the first time established a permanent civil rights office inside the Justice Department and a Civil Rights Commission to hear testimony about abuses of voting rights.

The Civil Rights Act of 1871 applies to public employment or employment involving state action prohibiting deprivation of rights secured by the federal constitution or federal laws through action under color of law.

By the time of the Civil War, Douglass was one of the most famous black men in the country, known for his orations on the condition of the black race and on other issues such as women's rights.

* Civil and political rights

Category: Civil rights and liberties

Category: Civil rights and liberties

In just over two minutes, Lincoln reiterated the principles of human equality espoused by the Declaration of Independence and proclaimed the Civil War as a struggle for the preservation of the Union sundered by the secession crisis, with " a new birth of freedom ," that would bring true equality to all of its citizens, ensuring that democracy would remain a viable form of government and creating a nation in which states ' rights were no longer dominant.

Civil and political rights are enshrined in articles 3 to 21 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ( UDHR ) and in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights ( ICCPR ).

The rights espoused in the UN charter would be codified and defined in the International Bill of Human Rights, composing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

The Civil Guards ( later called the White Guards ) were organized by local men of influence, usually conservative academics, industrialists and major landowners and activists and were armed by the Germans.

* 1965 – Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King, Jr. successfully complete their 4-day 50-mile march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama.

Civil rights activists in some cases have objected to people being rounded up, stripped and showered against their will.

Institutionalized racial segregation was ended as an official practice by the efforts of such civil rights activists as Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr., Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr., working during the period from the end of World War II through the passage of the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 supported by President Lyndon B. Johnson.

Henry David Thoreau's classic essay Civil Disobedience ( Thoreau ) | Civil Disobedience inspired Martin Luther King and many other activists.

Freedom Rides were journeys by Civil Rights activists on interstate buses into the segregated southern United States to test the United States Supreme Court decision Boynton v. Virginia, ( 1960 ) 364 U. S. that ended segregation for passengers engaged in interstate travel.

Still, some users and privacy activists like the American Civil Liberties Union believe that Internet users deserve stronger pseudonymity so that they can protect themselves against identity theft, illegal government surveillance, stalking, and other unwelcome consequences of Internet use ( including unintentional disclosures of their personal information, as discussed in the next section ).

Category: Civil rights activists

Category: Civil rights activists

Civil rights activists Al Sharpton and Herbert Daughtry urged that African Americans in general not be blamed for the crime ; Sharpton, in particular, criticized what he called attempts " to demonize black and Hispanic dissatisfaction " by linking those groups to the murders.

Civil rights activists were under suspicion in Mississippi, especially those from the North.

More recently, Richard C. Cook, an analyst for the U. S. Civil Service Commission, Food and Drug Administration, NASA, the U. S. Treasury Department, and author of the books Challenger Revealed and We Hold These Truths, has written several articles relating to Social Credit and monetary reform at Global Research, an independent research and media group of writers, scholars, journalists and activists.

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He was one of the Irish activists who along with Michael Collins accepted the Anglo-Irish Treaty and fought as a general in the Irish Civil War on the pro-Treaty side.

Civil liberties activists and writers of dystopian fiction believe that such programs have great potential for privacy violations, and have openly opposed the project.

Category: Civil rights activists from Northern Ireland

Category: Civil rights activists

Many Civil Rights Movement activists felt betrayed by Johnson, Humphrey, and the liberal establishment.

Civil rights activists all over Northern Ireland soon launched a campaign of civil resistance.

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The classic study of the 1964 election, by Carmines and Stimson ( 1989 ), shows how the polarization of activists and elites on race-related issues sent clear signals to the general public about the historic change in each party's position on Civil Rights.

* Border Ruffians, pro-Slavery activists from Missouri in the American Civil War