Civil Rights In a Democracy, the majority does not need any protection because it is the majority, which has control. However, as seen through history, even majorities can be tyrannical, and the minority needs protection from them. \"Civil rights\" is the term used when speaking of the privile...

The 1960's were a time of major political and social change. These changes were primarily fuelled by the youth of the time. Their parents had come from life in both the great depression of the 1930's as well as World War II, and were on a whole more conservative than their children, a fact the young...