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Civil rights movement!

Civil rights, equal social opportunity, and equal legal protection are guaranteed regardless of ethnicity, religion, or other personal traits. This freedom to vote, the power to a fair trial, administration services, the right to free learning, and the freedom to utilize common facilities are all examples of civil rights. Civil rights are a fundamental component of democracy; when individuals are denied chances to engage in a democratic society, their civil rights are violated. In contrast to civil liberties, which are freedoms protected through limiting government power, civil rights are secured by positive government action, most commonly in the form of legislation. Civil rights laws seek to provide full and equal citizenship for persons who have historically faced discrimination based on some group feature. When civil rights enforcement is seen as insufficient by many, a civil rights movement may arise to demand equitable application of the laws without discrimination. Unlike other notions of rights, such as human or natural rights, in which people gain rights intrinsically, possibly from God or nature, civil rights must be granted and protected by the state’s power. As a result, they vary significantly across time, culture, and system of government, and they tend to follow cultural trends that condone or condemn certain forms of discrimination. For example, in particular Western democracies, the civil rights of the lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) population have just lately risen to the center of political discourse. In the United States, civil rights politics has its roots in abolishing discrimination against African Americans. Though slavery was abolished and freed slaves were legally granted political rights after the Civil War, African Americans were systematically disenfranchised and barred from public life in most Southern states, causing them to become lifelong second-class citizens. By the 1950s, the marginalization of African Americans, which frequently took a violent form, had sparked a social movement of historic proportions.

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