Civil Rights
A civil right is an enforceable right or privilege, which if interfered with by another gives rise to an action for injury. Examples of civil rights are freedom of speech, press, assembly, the right to vote, freedom from involuntary servitude, and the right to equality in public places. Discrimination occurs when the civil rights of an individual are denied or interfered with because of their relationship in a particular group or class. Statutes have been enacted to prevent discrimination based on a person's race, sex, religion, age, previous condition of servitude, physical limitation, national origin, and in some instances sexual preference. Before 1954, segregation existed in many American schools, as well as in restaurants, hotels, and other aspects of day-to-day life. Many African-American children in Topeka for example, were forced to attend schools miles from their homes, though white elementary schools were nearby. In other cases outside Topeka, African-American children attended poor facilities lacking basic school equipment. Several African-American parents in Topeka tried unsuccessfully to enroll their children in white schools. On the parents' behalf, The Na
The Board of Education argued that school segregation would prepare black children for social conditions they would face in adulthood. 1808 -- Importation of slaves banned; illegal slave trade continues. The site of the next campaign was Selma, Alabama. They still faced illegal job discrimination, substandard schools, and unequal health care. 1963 -- Civil rights leader Medgar Evers is killed by a sniper's bullet. 1965 -- March from Selma to Montgomery, AL, to demand protection for voting rights; two civil rights workers slain earlier in the year in Selma. 1960 -- Four black college students begin sit-ins at lunch counter of a Greensboro, NC, restaurant where Black patrons are not served. King himself wrote a letter from the Selma jail, published in the New York Times, in which he said, "there are more Negroes in jail with me than there are on the voting rolls" in Selma. The Voting Rights Act was extended in 1970, 1975, and 1982, the last time despite vigorous resistance from the Reagan administration. In the worst attack yet, on Sunday, March 7, a group of Alabama state troopers, local sheriff's officers, and unofficial possemen used tear gas and clubs against 600 peaceful marchers. 1967 -- Riots in Detroit, Newark, New Jersey. 1991 -- Civil rights museum opens at King assassination site in Memphis.
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