What was the civil right about?

Civil rights are the protections and privileges of personal power given to all citizens by law. Civil rights are distinguished from "human rights" or "natural rights". Civil rights are rights that are bestowed by nations on those within their territorial boundaries, while natural or human rights are rights that many scholars claim ought to belong to all people. For example, the philosopher John Locke (1632鈥?704) argued that the natural rights of life, liberty and property should be converted into civil rights and protected by the sovereign state as an aspect of the social contract. Others have argued that people acquire rights as an inalienable gift from the deity or at a time of nature before governments were formed.

We have attached to the Constitution a Bill of Rights. These rights are about the freedom of assembly, to vote, to choose our own religion, etc. See Link.

The Consitution states that all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, to life, to liberty and to the pursuit of happiness. The Bill of Rights was added as amendments to describe what those rights under the Law are about.

I believe that you are asking me what is the Civil Rights Movement about and that had to do with Blacks winning the Right to vote and laws against discrimination in the workplace. It took a long time to both putdown slavery and to emancipate the black race from oppression that had existed for thousands of years. Blacks had to win an independence of their own and did so peacefully because of Martin Luther King, who won their soul through peaceful demonstration to the American people about who black people really are, and are called to be in America. Americans owe a debt of thanks to Martin Luther King for helping us to avoid violence during that period so that whites and blacks could consider one another in the manner of law, fairness and equity through debate, good actions, friendship and paths of peace.

"The Civil Rights Movement was at a peak from 1955-1965. Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, guaranteeing basic civil rights for all Americans, regardless of race, after nearly a decade of nonviolent protests and marches, ranging from the 1955-1956 Montgomery bus boycott to the student-led sit-ins of the 1960s to the huge March on Washington in 1963."

Historically, there were two periods where civil liberties were reconstructed with regard to blacks. The first period was through the Civil War and Reconstruction era, and the Emancipation Proclamation of Abraham Lincoln, intending to end slavery. The second period, is where civil liberties were reconstructed in order to derive an equal opportunity for blacks to be self sufficient and given the same right as whites within American society and government. Other minorities were then given the same opportunities. The second period from 1955 to 1965 is usually referred to as the Civil Rights Movement.

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