civil rights
Related Phrases
Civil rights movement
Refers to the social and political movement in the 1950s and 1960s that aimed to secure equal rights and protections for African Americans and other minority groups.
Civil rights legislation
Refers to the laws passed by Congress and other governing bodies to protect the civil rights of all citizens, such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Civil rights landmark
Refers to a significant event or decision that had a major impact on civil rights, such as the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case.
Digital rights violations
Refers to instances in which an individual's digital rights have been violated, such as unauthorized surveillance or censorship.
Human rights abuses
Refers to the systematic or widespread violation of human rights, such as crimes against humanity or genocide.
Notable Events
Edmund Pettis Bridge
The Edmund Pettus bridge became a symbol of the momentous changes taking place in Alabama, America, and the world. It was here that voting rights marchers were violently confronted by law enforcement personnel on March 7, 1965. The day became known as Bloody Sunday. [National Park Service]
Pentagon Papers
Daniel Ellsberg was as an analyst for Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's classified study of the war in Vietnam, a report which became known as the Pentagon Papers. Believing that the war was unwinnable and immoral, Ellsberg and his co-defendant Anthony Russo secretly copied the 7000-page report and provided it to the New York Times and Washington Post. [Library of Congress]
[Library of Congress] Prague Spring
Prague Spring, brief period of economic and political liberalization in Czechoslovakia under Alexander Dubček that began in January 1968 and effectively ended on August 20, 1968, when Soviet forces invaded the country.[Britannica]
Mao's Great Famine
In an unremarkable city in central Henan province, more than a million people – one in eight – are wiped out by starvation and brutality over three short years. In one area, officials commandeer more grain than the farmers have actually grown. [Tania Branigan]
Aaron Swartz
The tragedy has sparked widespread calls for reform of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), under which Swartz was being prosecuted, and limits on prosecutorial discretion in general. [Harvard Civil Rights]
The teen hacker who became insurgent in information war
Assange had published leaked footage showing airborne US helicopter pilots executing two Reuters employees in Baghdad, seemingly as if they were playing a video-game. He had followed up this coup with another, even bigger sensation: an unprecedented newspaper deal, brokered with the Guardian in London, to reveal hundreds of thousands of classified US military field reports from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, many of them damning – and the biggest leak, a deluge of diplomatic cables from US embassies worldwide, was yet to come. [David Leigh and Luke Harding]
Cesar Chavez
Cesar Chavez led protests against the inhumane treatment of migrant workers and eventually of all workers who were underpaid, poorly treated, and exploited by their bosses. [Maurice Elias]