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Through nonviolent protest, the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s broke the pattern of public facilities' being segregated by race in the South and achieved the most important breakthrough in equal-rights legislation for African Americans since the Reconstruction period (186577).

Examples of civil rights include the right to vote, the right to a fair trial, the right to government services, the right to a public education, and the right to use public facilities.

1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott. 1961 Albany Movement. 1963 Birmingham Campaign. 1963 March on Washington. 1965 Bloody Sunday. 1965 Chicago Freedom Movement. 1967 Vietnam War Opposition. 1968 Poor People's Campaign.

The definition of civil rights are the rights guaranteed to the individual by amendments to the Constitution and other laws passed by Congress that give people the right to vote, equal treatment and freedom from slavery.Of or relating to such rights or privileges.

Civil rights are an expansive and significant set of rights that are designed to protect individuals from unfair treatment; they are the rights of individuals to receive equal treatment (and to be free from unfair treatment or discrimination) in a number of settings -- including education, employment, housing, public

Though the scope of the term differs between countries, civil liberties may include the freedom of conscience, freedom of press, freedom of religion, freedom of expression, freedom of assembly, the right to security and liberty, freedom of speech, the right to privacy, the right to equal treatment under the law and due

Civil rights are an expansive and significant set of rights that are designed to protect individuals from unfair treatment; they are the rights of individuals to receive equal treatment (and to be free from unfair treatment or discrimination) in a number of settings -- including education, employment, housing, public

1a : of or relating to citizens civil duties. b : of or relating to the state or its citizenry civil strife. 2a : civilized civil society. b : adequate in courtesy and politeness : mannerly a civil question It was hard to be civil when I felt so angry.