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)
DaShanne Stokes
Privilege is when you contribute to the oppression of others and then claim that you are the one being discriminated against.
DaShanne Stokes

Langston Hughes
I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. Tomorrow, I'll be at the table When company comes. Nobody'll dare Say to me, "Eat in the kitchen," Then. Besides, They'll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed-- I, too, am America. ...more
Langston Hughes

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