Civil Rights

Civil Rights refer to the class of rights that protect an individual's freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations and private individuals. They ensure one's ability to participate in the civil and political life of the society and state without discrimination or repression.

Civil rights include the ensuring of peoples' physical and mental integrity, life, and safety; protection from discrimination on grounds such as race, gender, national origin, color, age, political affiliation, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, and disability; and individual rights
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The Help
March: Book One (March, #1)
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
March: Book Two (March, #2)
March: Book Three (March, #3)
The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Brown Girl Dreaming
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
The Hate U Give
Just Mercy
Between the World and Me
Parting the Waters: Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement 1954-63
One Crazy Summer (Gaither Sisters, #1)
Man Of A Thousand Fails by Bernie DowlingSadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor CoerrPenny from Heaven by Jennifer L. HolmThe Lions of Little Rock by Kristin LevineDanny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl
Middle Grade Fiction set in the 1950s
174 books — 55 voters
Gender and Property Rights by Mohammad JabbarFalling Angels by Tracy ChevalierNo Surrender by Constance Elizabeth MaudOpal Plumstead by Jacqueline WilsonThe Militant Suffragettes by Antonia Raeburn
Suffragettes in the UK
40 books — 31 voters

Impossible Saints by Clarissa HarwoodA Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary WollstonecraftA Time For Courage by Kathryn LaskyFalling Angels by Tracy ChevalierThe Woman's Hour by Elaine F. Weiss
Women's Suffrage
426 books — 134 voters
Brave New World by Aldous HuxleyThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsPlanet Ignis by Cassio FerreiraThe Time Machine by H.G. WellsHis Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik
Class Systems in Speculative Fiction
100 books — 21 voters

If not us, then who? If not now, then when?
John Lewis

Martin Luther King Jr.
Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.
Martin Luther King Jr., Why We Can't Wait

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