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)
The Feminine Mystique by Betty FriedanThe Second Sex by Simone de BeauvoirSet the Night on Fire by Mike  DavisBreaking the Bias of English by Vivian ProbstSexual Politics by Kate Millett
Second Wave Feminism
145 books — 64 voters
The Help by Kathryn Stockett11/22/63 by Stephen  KingThe Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom WolfeWild World by Peter S. RushGo Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks
Best Novels about the 1960s (fiction)
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In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies...but the silence of our friends. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
Mark Long, The Silence of Our Friends

William F. Buckley Jr.
The amount of money and of legal energy being given to prosecute hundreds of thousands of Americans who are caught with a few ounces of marijuana in their jeans simply makes no sense - the kindest way to put it. A sterner way to put it is that it is an outrage, an imposition on basic civil liberties and on the reasonable expenditure of social energy.
William F. Buckley

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