Civil Rights
From dKosopedia
Civil rights are those rights permitted to the citizen of a state (or expected by a citizen from his government). There is some overlap between the definitions of civil rights, civil liberties and human rights.
Specific civil rights generally include:
- Free participation in the democratic process
- The right of free political and personal expression
- Security in one's own person and possessions
- Freedom from discrimination based on political, religious, ethnic, or sexual leanings
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Movement Leaders
Violators and Violations
- Illegal Domestic Surveillance - Bush Circumventing FISA / Warrantless Eavesdropping Timeline
- COINTELPRO
- J. Edgar Hoover
- Ku Klux Klan
- Guantanamo Bay Detention Center ("Camp Gitmo")
- Abu Ghraib prison
- Christian Identity Movement
- HUAC
- Slavery
- Segregation
- Jim Crow Laws
- Japanese-American internment
- District of Columbia disenfranchisement
Other dKosopedia Civil Rights Links
- Gay Rights
- Gender Rights
- Voting Rights
- Racial Nondiscrimination
- United States Civil Rights Lawsuits
- Walter Williams
- Anne Braden
See Also
- Demographic Politics - politics by demographic, not by any means limited to civil rights for the demographic in question.
See Also
- Demographic Politics - politics by demographic, not by any means limited to civil rights for the demographic in question.
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