Definitions of civil rights on the Web:

• Civil and political rights are a class of rights and freedoms that protect individuals from the government and state power and assure the ability to participate in the civil and political life of the state.
  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights

• Those rights which expressely enumerated by the U.S. Constitution and are considered to be unquestionable; deserved by all people under all ...
  en.wiktionary.org/wiki/civil_rights

• Personal rights guaranteed and protected by the Constitution, ie, freedom of speech, press, freedom from discrimination.
  www.sunysb.edu/diversity/Glossary.html

• rights granted by a state to all its citizens. In the US this refers to the rights enshrined in the constitution and Bill of Rights. Civil rights prevent the government from intruding on personal liberties.
  www.ahmadrezataheri.org/post-112.aspx

• [country or state]--[city]
  www.loc.gov/rr/print/tgm1/app-a.html

• Equal treatment of all people with respect to protection of the law and to the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property.
  www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/lbjforkids/edu_glossary.shtm

• Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits all forms of discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin in all aspects of employment. ...
  www.unm.edu/~oeounm/glossary.htm

• Between the right of suffrage and social rights is an intermediate right claimed for the negro, namely, equal privileges with whites in hotels, cars and other public places. Charles Sumner was a strenuous advocate of civil rights, and his pet bill was passed soon after his death. ...
  people.virginia.edu/~rmf8a/gaskell/poldict.htm

• The rights belonging to an individual by virtue of citizenship, especially the fundamental freedoms and privileges guaranteed by the 13th and 14th ...
  library.thinkquest.org/05aug/00158/glossary3.html

• The right of certain individuals not to be discriminated against in employment, public accommodations, housing, voting, and education because of ...
  www.wku.edu/Dept/Support/Legal/EOO/Glossary_C.htm

• (See Civil Liberties).
  www.krootlaw.com/info-library/legal-dictionary/

• Whereas the rights of African-Americans should have been secured with the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Constitutional Amendments (1865-1868), it was actually a full century before a complete Civil Rights Act (1965) entered the books. ...
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