Civil rights leaders viewed Castro as an ally in the civil rights era.
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Among the most important of these civil rights laws is the Civil Rights Act of 1957, which created the Civil Rights division of the Department of Justice and made the attorney general the chief enforcer of the nation's civil rights laws.
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Because we understand water rights are civil rights and civil rights are human rights.
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The FBI and the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division are investigating possible civil rights violations.
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Even though we have a civil rights museum, the fight for civil rights still continues.
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The answer is civil rights, not majoritarian nationalism — and this means the civil rights of all.
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She has fought for women's civil rights and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights.
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Additionally, civil rights experts will conduct an audit of civil rights abuses perpetuated by Facebook's platform.
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Similarly, beneficiaries of the civil rights movement should recognize this connection between civil rights and immigration.
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My Wikipedia journey goes like this: Civil rights act 1964 > Civil Rights Movement > Black Power Movement.
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If confirmed, Sessions would oversee the Justice Department's civil rights division and enforce federal civil rights legislation.
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The HHS Office for Civil Rights investigates and enforces violations of civil rights and health information privacy.
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It is "Working Law: Courts, Corporations and Symbolic Civil Rights," not "Courts, Corporations and Symbolic Civil Rights."
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Joyce Beatty on race, diversity and civil rights within the organization (Facebook has an ongoing civil rights audit).
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Civil rights champion For years, Brown has championed for civil rights, and dedicated his life to improving education.
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Alleged civil rights abuses by law enforcement are investigated and prosecuted by the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division.
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Mr. Clinton later appointed Mr. Patrick assistant attorney general for civil rights, the nation's top civil rights post.
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She maintained that the Office for Civil Rights is "as committed as ever" to vigorous civil rights enforcement.
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Will America need a new civil rights movement to protect us from the Trump war on civil rights?
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The civil rights audit will be guided by Laura Murphy, a national civil liberties and civil rights leader.
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The civil rights struggle of the 1960s was no exception, for it was never about civil rights alone.
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" Congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis wrote, "Senator Byrd appropriated money for memorials to civil rights' icons.
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Civil rights advocates are raising alarm over President Trump's nominee to lead the Justice Department's civil rights division.
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"Facebook's civil rights audit began in 2018 at the encouragement of the civil rights community and as part of the company's commitment to advance civil rights on the platform," Facebook said in a statement.
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It would take a century before the contemporary civil rights movement restored the political and civil rights of blacks.
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These conversations can strengthen how civil rights organizations understand the modern advocacy landscape and how technologists support civil rights.
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But it did establish the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department and the US Commission on Civil Rights.
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Prior to her current role, she served as a Civil Rights Analyst at the U.S. Commission for Civil Rights.
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This is what the Civil Rights Act and other federal and state civil rights laws that followed were about.
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This was post civil rights, but there was still conversations about the movement, or post the civil rights era.
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Johnson hadn't passed civil rights legislation for 20 years in the Senate, either, but he signed the civil rights bill.
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" Of COO Sheryl Sandberg, who leads Facebook's civil rights task force, Beatty said "we know she's not really civil rights.
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Civil rights leaders and technologists can organize conversations with each other to explain the history of specific civil rights legislation.
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The Office of Civil Rights seems aware of these concerns and has been hiring new employees with civil rights experience.
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The report also suggested that the DOJ's Civil Rights Division investigate police departments for violations of homeless people's civil rights.
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Civil rights groups worry that the Justice Department's civil rights division will not be aggressive in prosecuting abuses under Sessions.
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"People don't understand the Civil Rights Movement isn't just for civil rights, it's for economic equality as well," Wise said.
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For example, in early January, the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law convened a private meeting of about two dozen civil rights groups to strategize about coming voting rights and other civil rights fights, participants said.
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My father was a civil rights advocate and he fought for civil rights in his community before Title VII was passed.
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The FBI and the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division vowed to investigate possible civil rights violations in connection with the threats.
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These changes are the result of historic settlement agreements with leading civil rights organizations and ongoing input from civil rights experts.
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Facebook over the past year has been undergoing a civil rights audit led by Laura Murphy, a top civil rights attorney.
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Both RAICES Texas and the Texas Civil Rights Project, prominent civil rights groups in the immigration movement, declined DNA kit offers.
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It also effectively stymied progress on civil rights, because civil rights groups were effectively cut out of the insider deal-making.
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We have to recognize that our struggle for civil rights isn't taking place in isolation from other struggles for civil rights.
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He helped write the Michigan state constitution's civil rights amendment and, with my grandmother, Emma, was a tireless civil rights leader.
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Dreiband's record of opposing civil rights renders him ill-suited to provide that kind of leadership to the Civil Rights Division.
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The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum — the first state-sponsored civil rights museum in the country — has been years in the making.
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Al Sharpton and other civil rights leaders in New York, the Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton spoke about her commitment to civil rights.
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They would be excluded from civil rights protections under Title IX, the civil rights law that bans gender discrimination in educational settings.
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Civil rights activists say the referendum is the latest effort to undercut civil rights for transgender people using the bathroom predator myth.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1957, which includes a provision for federal investigations of civil rights violations, was sparked by Till's murder.
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"Our visions of immigrant rights and civil rights were inextricably intertwined," Tom Perez, then head of the civil rights division, told me.
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President Reagan's civil rights chief, William Bradford Reynolds, faced criticism from advocacy groups who said he refused to enforce civil rights laws.
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"There is an office of civil rights within the department, and I would fully support the office of civil rights," she said.
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Civil rights issue of our timeThe injustice of mass incarceration and our legal system is the civil rights issue of our time.
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"Children's safety also includes protection from oppression and bigotry and injustice," Daniel J. Losen, director of the Center for Civil Rights Remedies at the University of California at Los Angeles's Civil Rights Project, wrote in testimony to the Civil Rights Commission.
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Editorial Civil rights organizations and some members of Congress are troubled by the Trump administration's rollback of civil rights enforcement generally, but they are particularly worried by what is going on at the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights.
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Clinton, and Representative John Lewis, Democrat of Georgia, a hero of the civil rights movement, cast doubts on Mr. Sanders's civil rights credentials.
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A spokesman for Perez, a former prosecutor in the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division and a civil rights adviser to the late Sen.
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Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan asked the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division to open a civil rights probe into the department's practices.
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Murphy will be taking advice from the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, headed by DOJ's former Civil Rights Director Vanita Gupta, Axios reported.
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A second Harriet Tubman National Historical Park, plus Reconstruction Era, Freedom Riders and Birmingham Civil Rights National Monuments cemented the civil-rights base.
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Civil rights groups have met his nomination with overwhelming opposition, arguing that someone with those positions should not lead the Civil Rights Division.
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DeVos said she's committed to protecting civil rights as stated by the civil rights law and the office has continued to do so.
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And two monumental civil rights laws -- the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the 1965 Voting Rights Act -- were already reshaping American society.
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In fact, federal civil rights laws were originally passed explicitly because some states might not like providing civil rights protections to certain people.
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Unlike the federal legislation, Nevada's civil rights statute allows a person to pursue "actual damages" in which the infringement of civil rights occurred.
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Sexual assault complaints are essentially civil rights disputes, and a preponderance of evidence standard is what is legally appropriate in civil rights cases.
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The head of the civil rights office issued an internal memo last year meant to reshape the agency's approach to civil rights enforcement.
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The U.S. Civil Rights Commission voted on Friday to launch a two year examination into the Trump administration's enforcement of civil rights laws.
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The Education Department's Office for Civil Rights is charged with ensuring equal access to education through enforcement of the nation's civil rights laws.
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Looking beyond Detroit, the institute's exhibition, "Art of Rebellion: Black Art of the Civil Rights Movement," examines the civil rights movement's artistic impact.
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The plaintiffs accuse Harvard of violating federal civil rights law, and U.N.C. of violating civil rights law and the Constitution's Equal Protection Clause.
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He became instead a mentor to Lyndon Johnson, who ended up breaking with Russell on civil rights first in a small way over the weak Civil Rights Act of 203 and later and more dramatically over the strong Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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How the Civil Rights Act came into law It started with John F. Kennedy, who asked Congress to enact civil rights legislation in 1963.
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During the New Deal and the civil rights movement, too, federal courts and the federal government proved essential allies for labor and civil rights.
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Eventually, though, the supporters of civil rights gained the upper hand, pushing through important civil rights and voting rights laws in the mid-1960s.
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Guillermo Ravelo, 37, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to deprive a person of his civil rights and deprivation of civil rights under color of law.
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"The most important thing my dad [civil-rights lawyer David Richards] taught me was a commitment to social justice and civil rights," she says.
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An Education Department spokeswoman told ProPublica that the department's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is "as committed as ever" to enforcing civil rights law.
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Tower spoke out against civil rights, joined with S. Dems to plot filibusters, and voted against the Civil Rights Act & Voting Rights Act. pic.twitter.
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Civil rights groups sued the Education Department (DOE) on Thursday over a new manual allowing officials to start dismissing hundreds of civil rights complaints.
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Bob Dylan is a reluctant civil rights icon, but a civil rights icon nevertheless; he won a month before Donald Trump was elected president.
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All my life I wanted to work in civil rights, and found myself thinking of being a civil rights lawyer from an early age.
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Sanders, meanwhile, has touted his college civil rights activism, met with black civil rights leaders and hosted an event at a historically black college.
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The astonishing Civil Rights Room at the Nashville Public Library tells the whole story of African-Americans' struggle for full civil rights in Nashville.
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National Association of African American Media, is a blow for the civil rights community — and a potential harbinger for civil rights cases to come.
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The current nominee, Eric Dreiband, a lawyer who has worked on both sides of civil rights law, is widely opposed by civil rights groups.
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Other notable names include civil rights activists like Michelle Alexander, Bryan Stevenson and Vanita Gupta, who led the Obama Justice Department's civil rights division.
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"The source of substantive protection of the civil rights laws are the civil rights statutes themselves and the agency can't undo that," he says.
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Bush appointees in the civil rights division were also caught trying to illegally push out career civil rights lawyers and replace them with conservatives.
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In June, Facebook released a nearly 30-page audit prepared by its civil rights ambassador Laura Murphy and roughly 90 prominent civil rights groups.
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A good first step would include inviting technologists to civil rights conferences and civil rights leaders to technology conferences; the logical next step would be the creation of more conferences like Data for Black Lives, which focus on the intersection of civil rights and technology.
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"And if I am confirmed, anyone who perpetuates crimes or other civil rights violations that come within the jurisdiction of the civil rights division should know and they should be on notice if I'm confirmed, the civil rights division is coming for them," he continued.
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The analysis of charter school data from the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights of close to 5,000 charters was done by the Center for Civil Rights Remedies at the University of California, Los Angeles, a nonprofit civil rights research and policy organization.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1957 launched a new era in the fight for civil rights, including additional laws to expand voting rights to President Kennedy establishing the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law to serve on the front lines to combat discrimination.
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The Civil Rights Division must get back on track with a leader who will be committed to protecting the civil rights of all Americans and who will enable the Division to carry out its historic mission as our nation's chief civil rights enforcement agency.
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It was no coincidence that this happened as the civil rights movement rose — and, in particular, after President Harry Truman vowed to do more to promote civil rights by, for example, integrating the military and telling the NAACP that civil rights could not wait.
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But invoking civil rights icons like Martin Luther King, Jr. and historic cultural uprisings didn't sit well with Zuckerberg's critics in the civil rights community.
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Civil rights prompted a racist backlash from Southerners, yet nobody seriously believes the 1964 Civil Rights Act or the 1965 Voting Rights Act were mistakes.
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If he was going to put forth a civil rights bill, he did not want to be called out for his inaction on civil rights.
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Prosecutors in Brooklyn oppose the charges, while the Civil Rights Division in Washington, D.C., says the video clearly shows evidence of a civil rights violation.
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The Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice was established by the Justice Department after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
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Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg last year agreed to publicly release a civil rights audit at the request of civil rights groups, including Color of Change.
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What's at stake Civil rights activists say the referendum is the latest effort to undercut civil rights for transgender people using the bathroom predator myth.
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Cases are logged when the Civil Rights Division begins a formal investigation of a company, police department, organization, or person suspected of violating civil rights.
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Franklin was active in the U.S. civil rights movement and sang at the funeral of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr in 27.
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) Civil Rights Division will argue in a federal appeals court today that the unborn have civil rights worthy of protection.
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He eventually created the President's Committee on Civil Rights — the first national civil rights commission — which released its report, "To Secure These Rights," in October 1947.
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Mullins and Craig filed a complaint to the Colorado Civil Rights Commission, since anti-LGBTQ discrimination is considered a violation of the state's civil rights law.
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Fifty years ago today, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1968, considered our last major piece of civil rights legislation.
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"With the Civil Rights Movement and the passage of civil rights bills, as well as the Voting Rights Act, the South began to shift," Levendusky said.
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The civil rights community also claims that a lack of civil rights expertise informing content decisions leads to vastly different outcomes for users from marginalized communities.
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Atesiano, Dayoub and Fernandez were each charged with "conspiracy to violate civil rights under color of law and deprivation of the 16-year-old's civil rights."
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The criminal division investigates election crimes like ballot fraud, while the civil rights division monitors Voting Rights Act issues and other election-related civil rights violations.
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What else did you learn about surveillance during the civil rights era, and the interesting paradox of cameras both helping and hurting the civil rights movement?
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And in 21877 it struck down the anti-discrimination provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 21883—Congress's last attempt to address civil rights until 21890.
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"Facebook is committed to working with leading U.S. civil rights organizations to strengthen and advance civil rights on our service," Sandberg wrote on her Facebook page.
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The new memo, sent by Candice Jackson, the acting assistant secretary for civil rights, to regional directors at the department's civil rights office, trims this approach.
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That the war coincided with major advances in civil rights — the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act and the Immigration and Nationality Act — certainly matters.
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Filibusters took on less saintly overtones during the civil rights era, when Southern Democrats used them to block civil rights legislation, including an anti-lynching bill.
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The Freedmen's Bureau Bill of 1865, Civil Rights Act of 1866, and Civil Rights Act of 1870 each guaranteed all persons equal rights of self-defense.
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A hero of the civil rights movement, the Georgia Democrat was beaten nearly to death by police during a 1965 civil rights march in Selma, Ala.
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"That swing vote has been critical in so many civil rights cases," said Ms. Clarke, the director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.
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But, as with other civil rights issues, the Office for Civil Rights could be less aggressive about looking into colleges where no complaints have been filed.
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"Jeff Sessions's D.O.J. has made it its mission to oppose, rather than enforce, civil rights law," said Sharon McGowan, a former Justice Department civil rights lawyer who is the director of strategy for Lambda Legal, which advocates civil rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
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The department's Civil Rights Division has investigated 25 law enforcement agencies over civil rights abuses during the past seven years; 14 investigations have ended in consent decrees.
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Williams works alongside veteran civil rights lawyers and activists in The Advancement Project, a "multi-racial civil rights organization" founded in 20143, according to the project's website.
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Raimundo Atesiano, a former police chief, was charged with "conspiracy to violate civil rights under color of law and deprivation of the 16-year-old's civil rights."
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What about the 1964 Civil Rights Act, a crowning achievement of the civil rights movement that brought about real change to a system built on systemic racism?
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Ainsworth, a civil rights attorney with a prominent Chicago firm, helped McCullough restore his good name, but another Chicago civil rights lawyer, Gabriel Fuentes, won his release.
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The passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act taking place at almost the exact moment that three civil rights workers were martyred in Mississippi during Freedom Summer.
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And I talk about civil rights and labor rights; I mean, the March on Washington was a march for civil rights and a march for labor rights.
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The Office for Civil Rights is responsible for investigating complaints and enforcing federal civil rights laws that apply to doctors, hospitals, and other recipients of HHS funding.
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Craig and Mullins filed a discrimination complaint against Phillips with state civil-rights regulators in September 2012, who referred the matter to the Colorado Civil Rights Commission.
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The United States Commission on Civil Rights will launch a two-year probe into civil rights offices throughout President Trump's administration to examine their ability to function.
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"Brett Kavanaugh is a dangerous ideologue whose extreme views on civil rights would solidify a far right majority on the Supreme Court," the civil rights organization said.
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DeVos, at the time, said she was committed to protecting civil rights as stated by the civil rights law and the office has continued to do so.
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Mullins and Craig filed complaints with the Colorado Civil Rights Division stating that this refusal of service stood in direct violation of Colorado state civil rights law.
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Still, the Alabama senator's nomination set off a political firestorm among Democrats and civil rights groups who voiced concerns about Sessions overseeing the agency's Civil Rights Division.
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The Great Society could get started only because the civil rights movement created unbearable pressure on members of Congress to support the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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We often think of the civil rights movement as being about black rights, but the civil rights movement was never just about the rights of black people.
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Georgia congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis recalled how Franklin "embodied what we were fighting for, and her music strengthened us" during the civil rights movement.
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The issue came to a head over controversies during the civil rights movement, when angry whites threatened violence if civil rights marches were permitted to take place.
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Congress created the civil rights division as part of the Civil Rights Act of 1957, and its mission and leadership have been the subject of frequent debate.
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Trump nominated attorney Eric Dreiband, who has represented corporations on matters such as civil rights and employment discrimination, to lead the DOJ's civil rights division on Thursday.
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If you include lectures on civil rights and the civil rights movement, for example, in your classes, you already have practice integrating humanizing and social scientific content.
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Severino, of the civil rights office, said the agency will still enforce civil rights protections on the basis of race, color, national origin, disability, age, and sex.
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In the 1950s and '60s that meant Southern Democrats deeply opposed to civil rights, who used their baronial power to bottle up civil rights legislation for decades.
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The arguments rely on different interpretations of the 1964 Civil Rights ActPassed as the culmination of years of activism and organizing during the Civil Rights Movement, the 1964 Civil Rights Act federally mandated standards for employers, banning discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, and national origin.
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And, Joe, now it's time that this table go from the possession of a man who was against civil rights to a man who was for civil rights.
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This wasn't the sort of cause ordinarily associated with civil rights, and in fact it put Color of Change in conflict with the big legacy civil rights institutions.
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New information had emerged about the FBI's civil rights malpractices in the 29s — its politically motivated harassment of the feminist, gay, civil rights, and anti–Vietnam War movements.
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I think just because the law covering and employee and employment relationships doesn't apply here — I do think California Civil Rights Law, the Unruh Civil Rights Act may.
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The civil rights activist said in a news release that he was making the endorsement independent of his non-profit organization, Rainbow PUSH Coalition, a civil rights group.
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In recent years, city officials and civil rights groups have worked to acknowledge and honor this history, and better explain Montgomery's importance to the broader civil rights movement.
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The DHS' civil rights office, which received the referrals, "reviews and investigates civil rights and civil liberties complaints filed by the public" regarding the department's policies and activities.
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He spent eight years working for the civil rights division of the Justice Department, where he investigated, tried and convicted officers accused of brutality and civil rights violations.
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In the news conference, lawmakers and civil rights activists argued that Kavanaugh would weaken provisions of the Voting Rights Act and be a general threat to civil rights.
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Since then, housing, employment and civil rights groups have raised concerns that Facebook was side-stepping civil rights laws by allowing advertisers to target or exclude certain groups.
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King explained that "love with justice" was a basic tenet of the nonviolent civil rights movement, and asked him what he thought of the new civil rights law.
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Sessions's overall civil rights record was less favorable to marginalized communities than any of his predecessors dating back to the civil rights era of the 1950s and 1960s.
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Critics of today's movement try to glorify the civil rights movement to levy a critique of the black-led millennial racial justice movement — including civil rights activist Rev.
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In 1994, the historian John Dittmer wrote "Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi," which helped reshape the way scholars thought about the civil rights movement.
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Since February, the department and its Office of Civil Rights have reversed their position on bathroom access and rescinded the findings of at least one civil rights investigation.
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King was instrumental in guiding Kennedy toward his awakening on civil rights -- a transformation that was crucial to desegregation and the eventual passage of landmark civil rights legislation.
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An experienced civil rights lawyer, she previously was deputy chief of the Housing and Civil Enforcement Section of the Civil Rights Division at the U.S. Department of Justice.
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But Kristin Clarke, president of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, said the project is "misaligned" with the central objectives of the department's civil rights division.
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He said killings attributed to the group during the civil rights era were the work of government agents, like those who infiltrated civil rights groups at the time.
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The agency, which enforces civil rights laws at work, said the job ads were a violation of the Civil Rights Act and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act.
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Instead, attorneys from the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division take the reins, meaning Sessions wouldn't necessarily have been closely involved in the four civil rights cases he mentions.
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But so the bottom line here is, look, everything I have done in my career, I ran because of civil rights, I continue to think we have to make fundamental changes in civil rights, and those civil rights, by the way, include not just only African-Americans, but the L.G.B.T. community.
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Civil rights groups, meanwhile, denounced the withdrawal as a politically motivated attack that will endanger transgender children and sow confusion over the federal government's role in enforcing civil rights.
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A video of a young Bernie Sanders being arrested during a civil rights protest will no doubt help him blunt criticism that he wasn't really a civil rights activist.
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In a civil rights case, a federal prosecutor has to be able to prove that an officer acted with the intention of depriving a person of their civil rights.
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You heard that right: The office tasked with protecting the civil rights of students is being told to avoid investigations into systematic attacks on the civil rights of students.
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The civil rights protections highlighted by the Post fall under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibited discrimination on the basis of race, sex, national origin, and religion.
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The ACLU notes that targeting job ads by sex is unlawful under federal, state, and local civil rights laws, including Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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Civil rights group wants hate-crime probe The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, called for a hate-crime investigation.
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Or John F. Kennedy: his civil rights advocacy is highlighted, but many Democrats ignore the depths of political calculus and extreme hesitancy with which JFK approached civil rights issues.
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In fact, incivility benefited Democrats in Washington supportive of civil rights, particularly Lyndon Johnson and Hubert Humphrey (the two politicians who worked hardest for civil rights in the 1960s).
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The year: 22015 The protest: Civil rights The anthem: "Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Round" There's no way to separate the US civil rights movement from its music.
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Wounded by shotgun fire while marching for voting rights in 1966, Meredith also shuns the title of "civil rights icon," as if civil rights are different from other rights.
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It's now a civil rights monument, ringed with sculptures of King, statues of demonstrators facing off against lunging attack dogs, and benches adorned with photos of civil rights martyrs.
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The federal civil rights investigation into the death fell into a dispute between federal prosecutors in Brooklyn and veteran civil rights prosecutors in Washington over whether to file charges.
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The Colorado Civil Rights Commission determined that the Phillips had discriminated against Craig and Mullins on the basis of their sexual orientation in violation of Colorado's Civil Rights Act.
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Civil rights activist Reverend Al Sharpton said on Thursday that he and other civil rights leaders would meet with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg next week to discuss the policy.
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In 2004, the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights ("OCR") committed to investigate claims of anti-Semitism under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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Messages of support began pouring in on social media for the civil-rights icon, with many touting his strength and tenacity acquired while helping spearhead the civil-rights movement.
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Civil Rights Act Prohibits LGBTQ Discrimination, Court RulesThe Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago has ruled that the 1964 Civil Rights Act protects LGBTQ employees from workplace discrimination.
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But I have long contemplated the idea of just going to the floor and saying, 'John Lewis, thank you for your contribution to civil rights during the civil rights era.
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The civil rights icon will testify against Trump's pick for attorney general The civil rights icon will testify against Trump's pick for attorney general Democratic senators have requested that Rep.
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Jonathan Smith: So the federal government has one criminal civil rights statute, the 18 U.S.C. 242, which permits the US to prosecute people for willful violations of someone's civil rights.
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She writes and teaches about issues of immigration, civil rights, and the environment, and is the author of Bridges of Reform: Interracial Civil Rights Activism in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles.
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The bill, known as the "Equality Act," would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and other civil rights laws to include sexual orientation and gender identity as protected characteristics.
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"I continue to think we have to make fundamental changes in civil rights, and those civil rights, by the way, include not just only African Americans, but the LGBT community."
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Vanita Gupta, the former head of DOJ's civil rights division under Obama, added that Flynn played a key role in turning the department into an advocate for LGBT civil rights.
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And, again, using the civil rights as an example is strange, since the amendment was in place during the period when many influential church sermons on civil rights were delivered.
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CRIPA is the only civil rights statute that requires the attorney general to personally sign off on a complaint, while department lawyers on other civil rights matters have more autonomy.
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In a letter issued Thursday, the Justice Department's top civil rights prosecutor, Vanita Gupta, warned the governor that the statute, which was passed in March, violates federal civil rights law.
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Environmental and civil rights groups sued the EPA last July because it had not issued a decision in five civil rights complaints that lingered on for more than 10 years.
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Civil rights and civil liberties offices mostly empty The DHS Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties has a staff of 90, with only two employees working through the shutdown.
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He subsequently submitted a supplement, explaining his role for those cases "like most U.S. Attorneys … with non-criminal civil rights cases, was to provide support" for the civil rights lawyers.
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President Kennedy moved slowly on promoting civil rights, but racial upheaval forced him to take action and his Civil Rights Address in 1963 made him an icon among African-Americans.
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To counter that perception, Sanders touted his college civil rights activism, did publicity events with rapper Killer Mike, and on Wednesday met black civil rights leader Al Sharpton in Harlem.
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The Obama administration says its reading of federal civil rights law is correct, so all states should either lose federal funding for violating civil rights protections or respect their guidance.
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Williams, 34, works in Washington, as an equal opportunity specialist for the Civil Rights Division of the United States Justice Department, where she investigates various claims of civil rights violations.
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Civil rights groups were quick to condemn the move, and the United States Commission on Civil Rights, a bipartisan federal agency, on Thursday urged the Justice Department to reverse course.
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Cleveland also has a rich civil rights history, where Amzie Moore founded a grocery store, beauty shop and gas station on U.S. Highway 61, while spearheading a civil rights headquarters.
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"His disgraceful conduct violated the civil rights of the church's parishioners and harmed their communities," Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband of the civil rights division, said in a news release.
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Born on a sharecropping farm, Mr. Lewis has spent his life fighting for racial integration and civil rights, rising through the ranks of the civil rights movement before taking office.
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"The Republican view of civil rights focuses on the protection of the individual," says Robert Driscoll, chief of staff of the civil rights division during George W. Bush's first term.
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In late January, an F.B.I. official said the bureau and the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division were investigating "possible civil rights violations in connection with threats" to the Jewish centers.
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I continue to think we have to make fundamental changes in civil rights and those civil rights by the way include not just only African-Americans but the L.G.B.T. community.
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Defending Sessions' record on civil rights issues, Trump spokesman Jason Miller noted Friday that Session had voted for a 30-year extension of the Civil Rights Act, had voted to confirm Eric Holder -- who is black -- as attorney general, and voted to give civil rights legend Rosa Parks the Congressional Gold Medal.
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Earlier on Thursday, Sandberg met with activists from civil rights group Color Of Change and said the company would release an early report on a civil rights audit it is conducting.
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Today, she's asking the country to support the Equality Act, a bill that would add LGBTQ protections to existing civil rights law and strengthening civil rights protections for other marginalized groups.
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The History Channel noted that the march was a watershed moment in U.S. civil rights history, helping set in motion subsequent peaceful protests that later developed into the Civil Rights movement.
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This may be a return to the Bush administration, which essentially treated civil rights enforcement as a joke and never took accusations of voter suppression or other civil rights violations seriously.
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In May 2016, the Asian American Coalition for Education filed a civil rights complaint to the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights against Yale University, Dartmouth College, and Brown University.
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The Colorado Civil Rights Commission, which is party to the case, adds that Colorado's civil rights law serves a legitimate state interest by banning the "pervasive" problem of anti-gay discrimination.
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Examples of Protest Music From Different Times, Places and Genres The Civil Rights Movement "We Shall Overcome" sung by Mahalia Jackson In the midst of the civil rights movement, the Rev.
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Learn more about the role of restaurants and food in the civil rights struggle in Frederick Douglass Opie's book, Southern Food & Civil Rights: Feeding the Revolution, or by visiting his website.
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In a tweet, Briley called on his city to instead "remember those who fought against hate," pointing to Nashville civil rights activist Diane Nash and civil rights lawyer Z. Alexander Looby.
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But Debora L. Osgood, a lawyer who worked for 25 years at the Office for Civil Rights and now consults with and represents schools on civil rights matters, praised the change.
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"I was struck with Jeff's fierce determination to solve these civil rights murders, which so greatly impacted the rule of law and the guarantee of civil rights in America," he wrote.
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The commission's expected recommendation will come as the administration seeks to roll back civil rights protections, limiting investigations of patterns of discrimination and proposing cuts to the Office for Civil Rights.
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Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) in a letter Wednesday asked the head of the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division to investigate whether authorities' use of the software violates civil rights safeguards.
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Voting rights groups say this requires more effort from civil rights groups to challenge a law, and also creates additional expenses both for civil rights groups and county and state officials.
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Jason Kessler, the organizer of the rally, wrote that the purpose of the event was to protest the "civil rights abuse" in Charlottesville and called it a "white civil rights" rally.
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The civil rights division of the Department of Justice was established under the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and has been one of the most celebrated offices in the federal government.
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The current head of the Civil Rights Office at the Department of Health and Human Services is Roger Severino, a former civil rights attorney and outspoken critic of same-sex marriage.
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The Leadership Conference, a civil rights advocacy group, counts at least 95 instances in which the administration has taken a stance antithetical to longstanding views on civil rights and civil liberties.
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Three of the groups — the foundation, Judicial Watch and the American Civil Rights Union — rely on former lawyers in the Justice Department's civil rights division during the George W. Bush administration.
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The passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and 1965 Voting Rights Act, alongside the 1954 Brown Supreme Court decision, represents the crown jewels of the civil rights movement's heroic period.
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Vanita Gupta, the president and CEO of the civil rights group, spoke about the topic Tuesday during congressional testimony before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.
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When discussing civil rights, former Vice President Joe Biden struggled to expand beyond African-Americans in his discussion of civil rights, throwing in at the last minute L.G.B.T.Q. into his answer.
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In 2015, the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights found that the university's sexual-misconduct policies had violated Title IX, the federal civil rights law governing gender equity in education.
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Following their release, the brothers hired an attorney and notified the Arab-American Civil Rights League, the latter of which filed a complaint with the Michigan Civil Rights Commission in August.
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TUESDAY • SCOTUS hears a key transgender civil rights case.
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DERAY MCKESSON, "Justice Issues" — Civil rights activist, BLM leader.
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"Anyone who perpetrates crimes or any other civil rights violations that come within the jurisdiction of the civil rights division should know — they should be on notice, if I'm confirmed — that the civil rights division is coming for them," Mr. Dreiband told the Senate Judiciary Committee, deploring "the bigotry and ideology" of white supremacy.
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In fact, Mr. Sessions sought to punish older black civil rights activists, advisers and colleagues of my husband, who had been key figures in the civil rights movement in the 1960's.
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The Civil Rights Movement, which took place predominantly from 1954 to 1968, and lead to the landmark passage of the Civil Rights Act of 183, significantly influenced the LGBT— now LGBTQ+ — movement.
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"Despite continuing concerns from civil rights and community-based organizations, the department has sharply curtailed its statutory role in identifying and eradicating civil rights abuses by law enforcement," the lawmakers' letter said.
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The civil rights museum project that he wants in Harlem still animates him, too; why, he asks rhetorically, is the nation's history of the civil rights struggle memorialized mostly in the South?
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In June 1966, after the attempted murder of civil rights leader James Meredith, major civil rights organizations banded together to continue the "Meredith March against Fear," from Memphis, Tennessee, to Jackson, Mississippi.
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"The American people want vigorous protection of civil rights and faithfulness to the text of the laws passed by their representatives," Office for Civil Rights Director Roger Severino said in a statement.
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The Unruh Civil Rights Act: Passed in 1959, the Unruh Civil Rights Act prohibits businesses in California from discriminating against potential patrons on the basis race, gender, age, religion, and so on.
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The network also had announced a partnership with a civil rights group, Color of Change, which was to produce accompanying segments featuring civil rights leaders to furnish context for the documentary series.
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But civil rights advocates worry that the office's rejection of legitimate claims is the most obvious example to date of its diminishing role in enforcing civil rights laws in the nation's schools.
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The civil-rights movement prompted lawmakers to pass the Civil Rights Act of 21963, outlawing discrimination based on "race, color, religion, sex or national origin", and the Voting Rights Act of 21956.
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The audit also said that in 2019 Facebook plans to work on creating a "civil rights accountability infrastructure," the details of which would be worked out in consultation with civil rights groups.
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The 20-page document attempts to tie the civil rights leader to various communist influences and alleges financial improprieties at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the civil rights organization that he led.
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The E.P.A.'s Office of Civil Rights is supposed to enforce Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race by any recipient of federal money.
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" It argues that civil rights for gay people are different than civil rights for black people because it claims that there are "no ex-blacks but there are thousands of ex-gays.
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Robinson's act of courage was a precursor to the civil rights movement of the 1950's; the civil rights movement made it possible for Obama to become the first African-American president.
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"To this end, we request that the Trump administration and the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division and Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights reconsider rescinding" the protections for transgender students.
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As Oprah highlighted in her speech, it's work that women like civil rights hero Recy Taylor did — a woman whose own rape case was an early moment in the civil rights era.
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On Sunday, Facebook published its first ever Civil Rights Audit, which aimed to gauge the areas Facebook needs to focus on in order to strengthen civil rights and liberties on the platform.
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The Justice Department's civil rights office has prosecuted some of the most important civil rights cases in United States history, including dismantling Jim Crow and maintaining the rights of people with disabilities.
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His pivotal speech not only helped bring the Civil Rights Movement even more to the forefront, it also pressured Congress to pass the Civil Rights Act, which they did the following year.
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"When I tried my redlining lawsuit against Nationwide, in 1998, as a civil-rights lawyer, it was the largest civil-rights jury verdict in the United States at that time," he said.
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" Civil rights leaders argued time and again that their protests were protected free expression, and one noted: "nearly all the cases involving the civil rights movement were decided on First Amendment grounds.
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In this one and another essay, "Tactical Lessons From the Civil Rights Movement," Harris cites the 2015 book, This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible.
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In fact, Mr. Sessions sought to punish older black civil rights activists, advisors and colleagues of my husband, who had been key figures in the civil rights movement in the 1960's.
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Douglass also was a friend of Susan B. Anthony and an advocate for women's civil rights as well as the civil rights of black people, understanding even then the intersectionality of oppressions.
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Kristen Clarke, president of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law civil rights group, said the ruling should "sound an alarm" for prosecutors who engage in racial discrimination during jury selection.
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The Civil Rights Act does protect LGBTQ employees, federal court rules in a landmark decision The Civil Rights Act does protect LGBTQ employees, federal court rules in a landmark decision For the first time in U.S. history, a federal court has ruled that LGBTQ employees are protected from workplace discrimination under the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
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"Civil rights leaders and experts – including members of the Congressional Black Caucus, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, and Laura Murphy, the highly respected civil rights leader who is overseeing the Facebook civil rights audit – have also raised valid concerns about this issue," Sheryl Sandberg wrote in a blog post tied to the announcement.
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The big picture: Civil rights advocates have pushed Facebook to do a better job of policing harassment, and earlier this year the company agreed to do a civil rights audit of its platform.
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Rep. John Lewis, a civil rights icon who has been at the forefront of civil rights struggles, spoke poignantly about his own experience with racism Wednesday during a congressional hearing to confirm Sen.
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The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has been claiming for years to be not merely the nation's preeminent Muslim civil rights group, but a defender of the civil rights of all Americans.
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Harvard's policy violates Title IX, the federal civil rights law that bans discrimination on the basis of sex, the U.S. Constitution, the Massachusetts constitution and the state's Civil Rights Act, the lawsuits claim.
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"At best, this administration believes that civil rights enforcement is superfluous and can be easily cut," Vanita Gupta, the former acting head of the DOJ's civil rights division under President Obama, told ProPublica.
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Harbury partnered with the Texas Civil Rights Project, a nonprofit that often pursues civil-rights cases on behalf of immigrants, and she was soon joined by one of the group's attorneys, Efrén Olivares.
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So, Democrats should be extremely wary about jettisoning the core social and cultural principles -- civil rights and gender equity -- that have animated their own base since the civil rights struggles of the 1960s.
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When asked who was on Facebook's civil rights task force, Zuckerberg led with Facebook's chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, but Beatty pushed for Zuckerberg to name someone more involved with civil rights causes.
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"Finally, laws prohibiting government funded discrimination against conscience and religious freedom will be enforced like every other civil rights law," Roger Severino, director of HHS's Office of Civil Rights, said in a statement.
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The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee At the site where King was assassinated, the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel was expecting as many as 7,000 to 8,000 visitors.
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In the civil rights investigation, the DOJ's task was to prove that Pantaleo had intentionally and willfully violated Garner's civil rights when he restrained the man and thus deserved to face criminal charges.
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During a January 2018 CNN interview, he called Kaepernick an "iconic figure," adding that the player's focus on civil rights issues made him comparable to civil rights icon and famed boxer Muhammad Ali.
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John Lewis, the civil rights leader and Democratic congressman from Georgia, said Thursday that he would not attend opening of the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum this weekend because President Trump would be there.
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I'm launching my own project working with foreign investors in Eastern Europe who feel strongly about civil rights equality and trying to bring them onboard with the civil rights fights in their region.
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Within a month, however, President John F. Kennedy delivered the speech that led to passage of the Civil Rights Act, invoking a moral imperative for civil rights as well as a legal one.
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One friend was Maya Angelou, the poet and civil rights advocate, who lived in the Suttons' apartment for several months in 1965 while organizing civil rights campaigns in New York for the Rev.
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The bipartisan bill passed the House of Representatives last year and would clarify and add sexual orientation and gender identity as protected characteristics to existing civil rights law, including the Civil Rights Act.
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During a January 22016 CNN interview, he called Kaepernick an "iconic figure," adding that the player's focus on civil rights issues made him comparable to civil rights icon and famed boxer Muhammad Ali.
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The Office for Civil Rights sent a "dear colleague letter" reminding colleges that sexual harassment and assault create an environment so hostile that women's access to education is jeopardized, violating their civil rights.
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The civil rights of our citizens are being trampled on.
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"Radicals against war, for women, for civil rights" he recalls.
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The chef and civil rights activist was 96 years old.
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"50 years of civil rights have been threatened," he said.
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Gilbert was an openly gay man and civil rights activist.
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You don't have civil rights; you know what I mean?
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The inspiration: Angela Davis, civil rights activist and Black Panther.
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In the same year, the Civil Rights Act was passed.
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He understood his history and the fight for civil rights.
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A civil rights lawyer in Oakland, however, later named them.
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Civil rights groups and Latino advocacy groups dispute this notion.
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Herman Talmadge, southern Democrats who opposed civil rights and desegregation.
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She was an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist.
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Civil rights attorneys, meanwhile, are still trying to find answers.
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That's where I got started in the Civil Rights movement.
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The central dispute here is over federal civil rights laws.
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JF: That was civil rights and justice reporter Dominic Holden.
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He implemented progressive hiring policies during the civil rights movement.
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"This is an issue of fundamental civil rights," he added.
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Joyce Beatty grilled Zuckerberg on the company's civil rights initiatives.
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But take it from the veteran civil rights activist Rep.
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The argument: Federal civil rights law already prohibits sex discrimination.
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Civil rights groups cheered the likely end of Farr's nomination.
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The women have filed civil rights lawsuits against the officers.
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John Lewis of Georgia, a civil rights icon, seconded it.
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It changed around the 1960s with the civil rights movement.
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He is the son of civil rights leader the Rev.
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We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights.
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Civil rights groups contend the method promotes illegal racial profiling.
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Porter, 59, lived in Memphis during the civil rights era.
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They feel proud of having supported the civil rights movement.
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On Thursday, Clinton was helped by civil rights icon Rep.
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Based on the famous 1967 civil rights case, Loving v.
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I never realized people would label that as civil rights.
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And criminal civil rights attorney David Schoen is with us.
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Indeed, the histories of civil rights and feminism in this
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The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division is also reportedly investigating.
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To him, this was entwined with the Civil Rights movement.
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The black church was integral to the civil rights movement.
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"All civil rights for nonwhites would be removed," she said.
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Because he's a civil rights icon shouldn't make him immune.
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Best known for his images of the Civil Rights Movement.
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Georgia Congressman and Civil Rights icon John Lewis backs him.
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"They only wait (for) their main civil rights," he says.
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She lived in Detroit during the 1960s Civil Rights era.
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Civil rights and reproductive health care advocates applauded Schneiderman's move.
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A federal investigation and a federal civil rights lawsuit followed.
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Did it play a role in the civil rights movement?
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Civil rights are guaranteed to all Americans in the Constitution.
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Civil rights and liberties can become ensnared in disaster response.
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He didn't neglect to mention our nation's civil rights heroes.
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Letterman also said Trump's feud with civil rights icon Rep.
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To dismiss that takes away from the civil rights movement.
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" Alternet: "Franken Thoroughly Dismantles Jeff Sessions' Dubious Civil Rights Record.
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" Mother Jones: "Franken Tears Into Sessions Over Civil Rights Claims.
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The Civil Rights act guarantees equal protection under the law.
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Johnson, a civil rights activist, was also the school's principal.
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Gavin Newsom (D) and Hispanic civil rights icon Dolores Huerta.
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The Department of Justice has opened a civil rights investigation.
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PayPal could argue that its move was about civil rights.
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Look at Egypt ... Look at Turkey — what about civil rights?
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He was the CEO of an iconic civil rights organization.
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He was a progressive figure, a fighter for civil rights.
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It was the Civil Rights Act of 1957, not 1964.
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Around that time, Aboriginal activists began agitating for civil rights.
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Director, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice Boston
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At the funeral service, veteran civil rights leader the Rev.
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He beat out Democratic candidate civil rights attorney James Thompson.
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The news illustrates a disturbing trend, civil rights groups say.
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Rosa Parks became a symbol of the civil rights movement.
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He's also emphasized his background as a civil rights leader.
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One couple also brought claims under the Civil Rights Act.
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Out of this came the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
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But civil rights groups like the ACLU aren't buying it.
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Her legal career has been dedicated to civil rights advocacy.
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From when you were a student, civil rights – Alexander: Right.
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Demonstrators have voiced concern Trump would harm Americans' civil rights.
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A similar backlash erupted during the modern civil rights movement.
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We rallied for civil rights and against segregation and discrimination.
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Discriminating in admissions is a violation of civil rights law.
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Young people ensured we had civil rights in this country.
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And over here, what's happened since the civil rights movement?
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He has opposed important legislation to safeguard our civil rights.
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Civil rights leader John Lewis is an especially powerful opponent.
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Al Sharpton's civil rights group National Action Network's convention Friday.
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Think about how, say, the Civil Rights Act was passed.
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The rule will enforce statutes that guarantee these civil rights.
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John Lewis, a key figure in the Civil Rights movement.
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This record alone is troubling enough for civil rights advocates.
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In the middle of a vote, civil rights icon Rep.
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The report was condemned as racist by civil rights groups.
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The federal Justice Department opened a separate civil rights investigation.
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The case fell to the Justice Department's civil rights division.
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Predictably, and justifiably, the state's civil rights leaders excoriated him.
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All of the candidates discussed civil rights and racial inequality.
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Without that deterrence, experts believe civil rights violations might increase.
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Some, like Ella Baker, a tireless civil rights organizer, refused.
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Should those who support income redistribution also support civil rights?
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The other attorney, Michael Sussman, is a civil rights lawyer.
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WILLOUGHBY Yeah, well, there's definitely civil rights laws prevents that.
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Schneiderman had also filed a civil rights lawsuit against TWC.
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My coming to feminist consciousness was the civil rights movement.
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President Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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Old soldiers in the civil rights struggle were also buried.
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Colorado Civil Rights Commission, the legal ruling was decidedly narrow.
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We would continue to lose our liberties and civil rights.
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The country knows Rosa Parks as a civil rights heroine.
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That drove Congress to establish civil rights and redefine citizenship.
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Thea Sebastian is policy counsel for the Civil Rights Corps.
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If it's civil rights for all, let's have that fight.
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"The civil rights accorded every American are firmly under threat."
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Rosa Parks, for example, was a trained civil rights activist.
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Civil rights activist Jesse Jackson endorsed Sanders over the weekend.
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Civil rights leaders also are monitoring Trump's Cabinet picks closely.
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Most nominees have long records of hostility to civil rights.
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The civil rights group is representing Coleman in the matter.
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Glickman was the largest civil rights settlement in U.S. history.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights giants.
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Shayan Elahi is a civil rights attorney based in Dallas.
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The Fourteenth Amendment prohibits states from infringing certain civil rights.
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It makes claims of civil rights violations, discrimination and negligence.
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It opposed civil rights and catered to its Southern base.
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The nominee can change how civil rights laws are enforced.
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Too many civil rights activists and groups complained about it.
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"Byron Allen is putting civil rights protections on the line."
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How do you keep yourself educated on civil rights issues?
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He has linked L.G.B.T.Q. rights to the civil rights struggle.
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The same thing happened with the 20163 Civil Rights Act.
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Singer and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte is backing Sen.
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I am proud to stand with these civil rights organizations.
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In signing the Civil Rights Act of 85033, on Sept.
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He's just assigned us a "personal essay" about civil rights.
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Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson; actress Star Jones; Flint, Mich.
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Organized labor and civil rights groups led the dissenting voices.
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We are being forced to refight old civil rights battles.
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And in every civil rights movement, you can see this.
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The Department of Homeland Security's civil rights office is investigating.
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Today's civil rights struggle is mainly over freedom of religion.
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The following year, three young civil rights workers were killed.
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How did you first become interested in civil rights issues?
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As a key civil rights leader, he endured multiple beatings.
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Marshall turned his focus to civil rights, particularly in education.
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He has also been indicted on federal civil rights charges.
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This sort of unequal treatment violates federal civil rights law.
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By then he was deeply involved in civil rights issues.
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" Another workshop is the "Advancing Civil Rights or Reverse Discrimination?
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After the vote, civil rights icon and Georgia Democratic Rep.
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A justice department rolling back civil rights by the day.
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"This is our modern day civil rights movement," says McBath.
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Is Maryland ready for a civil rights leader turned governor?
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She was also a civil rights lawyer in private practice.
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The Civil Rights Division is an investigative and prosecutorial agency.
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What are equal rights for women but civil rights issues?
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Many civil rights leaders of the 1960s understood this dynamic.
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Many civil rights leaders of the 1960s understood this dynamic.
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"We never thought about a civil rights movement," he said.
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The new Mississippi Civil Rights Museum refuses to sugarcoat history.
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The working group called employment lawyers and civil rights groups.
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At the new Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, in Jackson, Miss.
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Clinton has a long history of support for civil rights.
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Civil rights killings It's one of the most notorious murder cases of the civil rights era: three men, working to register blacks to vote, ambushed and shot to death by Klan members in 1964.
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By 1963, he was the chairman of SNCC, a post he would hold through a dangerous era that saw civil rights leaders targeted and assassinated, but also the passage of the Civil Rights Act.
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Using a civil rights hero to sell cars in a Super Bowl commercial may seem absurd on its face, but it's particularly ridiculous when said civil rights icon actually spoke out against car commercials.
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But, for decades, he pushed whites in the Democratic Party to embrace the cause of civil rights; in the early '21962s, Humphrey played a key role in making Lyndon Johnson's civil rights bills law.
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San Francisco (CNN Business)More than 45 civil rights groups, including the NAACP and the Human Rights Campaign, came together to urge Facebook (FB) to protect civil rights and address discrimination on its platform.
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The Colorado Civil Rights Commission, another party in the case, also filed a brief on Monday to defend the state's civil rights law, warning that granting leeway to "expressive" businesses is a slippery slope.
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That could, in turn, bleed over to federal civil rights laws beyond Title IX and education — such as the Civil Rights Act's protections in the workplace and the Fair Housing Act's provisions for housing.
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King worked closely with President Lyndon Johnson, a Democrat, to help spur the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act, two critical civil rights laws championed by Johnson.
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Also among the inspirational women featured are Ida Wells, the American journalist and civil rights activist, Lotfia El Nadi, Egypt's first female pilot, and Miriam Makeba, the South African singer and civil rights activist.
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Jonathan Smith is executive director of the Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs and Kristen Clarke is president and executive director of the national Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.
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In a letter to Mr. McCrory last week, Vanita Gupta, the Justice Department's top civil rights official, said the North Carolina statute violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits sex discrimination.
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The attempt to better realize this system lies behind the lauded civil rights movements of the 20th century and led to the federal government's offices of civil rights, such as the one in HSS.
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Defense and civil rights lawyers have long complained of attempts to extend the state law, Section 50-a of the Civil Rights Law, to shield all manner of law enforcement actions from public scrutiny.
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Under federal law, including the Civil Rights Act of 210, the Office for Civil Rights is responsible for ensuring equal access to education and investigating allegations of discrimination in the country's schools and colleges.
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Since other parts of the federal government frequently refer civil rights cases to the Justice Department for prosecution, the lower caseload could be partly due to reduced activity outside of the civil rights division.
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"Bending Toward Justice: The Birmingham Church Bombing That Changed the Course of Civil Rights" is a valuable addition to the historical record of Alabama's role as the battleground state of the civil rights revolution.
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The reason civil rights laws are effective, Barron and Hebl suggested, isn't necessarily that people fear the punishment of the law — but rather that civil rights laws authoritatively set the morals of a community.
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Their demonstration, organized by the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association — inspired in part by the civil rights movement in the United States — had been outlawed when unionist opponents announced plans for a rival march.
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On Thursday, the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law filed a lawsuit against Kemp on behalf of a coalition of Georgia civil rights groups seeking an immediate end to the "exact match" program.
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And in the South, white-owned papers and television stations censored Northern coverage of the civil rights movement, and white southerners heatedly criticized Northern journalists for what they saw as pro-civil-rights bias.
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Kristen Clarke, president of the Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law, published a blistering open letter on Tuesday slamming Facebook's policies and warning the company could face litigation under civil rights law.
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Rebecca Laurie, the spokesperson for the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies, told CNN that the Colorado Civil Rights Division and the Colorado Civil Rights Commission are unable to comment regarding pending or active litigation.
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Long-time North Carolina journalist and historian Rob Christensen has said that there are two defining moments in modern Southern political history: the Civil Rights movement, and the reaction to the Civil Rights movement.
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Cotton was among a small number of women in leadership positions at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference during the civil rights era, and she led the Atlanta-based civil rights group&aposs Citizenship Education Program.
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Biden did not praise either of the men, but he does have a history of praising several senators who supported segregation and opposed the Civil Rights Act -- though not for their positions opposing civil rights.
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And that could, in turn, bleed over to federal civil rights laws beyond Title IX and education — such as the Civil Rights Act's protections in the workplace and the Fair Housing Act's provisions for housing.
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In the meantime, the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, in conjunction with other civil rights groups, sued Kemp's office for rejecting absentee ballots on the grounds of exact match requirements, and on Oct.
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As they generally do now, judges and civil rights agencies should treat religious and other objectors with respect, even as they overrule those objections and insist on full and fair enforcement of civil rights laws.
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"Despite continuing concerns from civil rights and community-based organizations, the Department has sharply curtailed its statutory role in identifying and eradicating civil rights abuses by law enforcement," the lawmakers, including Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep.
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And in June, the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) within the Education Department said it would be scaling back its investigations, no longer requiring local investigators to look for systemic issues in civil rights offenses.
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"The FBI and the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division are investigating possible civil rights violations in connection with threats to Jewish Community Centers across the country," Carrie Adamowski, Philadelphia's FBI public affairs specialist, said Monday.
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As a black feminist and a civil rights historian, I do not need to be persuaded that many black male ministers during the civil rights era were morally duplicitous, felt sexually entitled and slept around.
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"This ruling weakens our nation's oldest civil rights statute and may shut the courthouse door on some discrimination victims," Kristen Clarke, president of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, said in a statement.
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Staffing in the Office for Civil Rights has been a source of concern for civil rights advocates ever since the Trump administration rescinded protections for transgender students as one of its first education policy moves.
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John Sherman Cooper, a Kentucky senator who was instrumental in the passage of the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts and – specifically – how hard it was being a pro-civil rights Republican at the time.
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Sessions says civil rights law doesn't protect transgender workers Attorney General Jeff Sessions reversed an Obama administration guidance and determined that the 1964 federal civil rights law does not protect transgender workers from employment discrimination.
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In what came to be known as the Civil Rights Cases of 1883, the Supreme Court overturned the Civil Rights Act of 1875, which had guaranteed equal access to public conveyances, accommodations, recreation and juries.
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If adopted, civil rights groups say the new definition of sex would codify the administration's position that the transgender community is not deserving of civil rights protections in other areas of public life, as well.
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Position: Director, Office of Civil Rights at HHS Background: A Harvard-educated attorney and Catholic conservative, Severino worked as a civil rights lawyer at DOJ before joining a center on religion at the Heritage Foundation.
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Clinton was also giving a civil rights speech Tuesday, in Harlem.
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The civil rights generation had the TV. We have the internet.
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DAVID SCHOEN, CIVIL RIGHTS AND CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY: That&aposs right.
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Civil rights law is not an easy field, the attorneys say.
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That belief formed the spiritual backbone of the civil rights movement.
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I grew up thinking that the civil rights movement already happened.
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When it comes to prosecuting civil rights violations, let's hope Sen.
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Ted Kennedy, D-Massachusetts, and civil rights leader Coretta Scott King.
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Castro famously supported civil rights, healthcare and education around the world.
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What is Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
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Sessions is "literally terrifying the entire civil rights community," Jones said.
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Our office supported historic civil rights cases and major civil cases.
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Civil rights groups dislike Horowitz because of his anti-Muslim views.
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The Justice Department filed a civil rights lawsuit against the state.
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A Justice Department civil rights investigation into the case is ongoing.
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He was the first Democrat after civil rights, and after Vietnam.
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Her father was famed preacher and civil rights activist C.L. Franklin.
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When the agreement became public, local civil rights lawyers were irate.
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The ACLU says this is concerning from a civil rights perspective.
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Johnson's signature achievement as president was the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
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Just a third see civil rights as "absolutely essential" to democracy.
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There are people who marched for civil rights in this country.
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The administration has said the law violates the Civil Rights Act.
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It makes me sad as someone who cares about civil rights.
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Hammond's family had contended that the teenager's civil rights were violated.
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Civil-rights activists fear curbs on free speech and human rights.
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Their union became a powerful force during the civil rights movement.
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It will highlight the endorsement from civil rights activists Dolores Huerta.
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" "Black history is more than slavery and the Civil Rights Movement.
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One, from 1992, enshrines the same civil rights for all citizens.
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Second, Dorsey agreed to have Twitter undergo a civil rights audit.
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In both countries, civil-rights groups call deportation brutal and unfair.
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Federal civil rights laws also prohibit discrimination against students with disabilities.
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When Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1957, activists complained.
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Civil rights advocates say that the health crisis in Flint, Mich.
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Bodily autonomy and self-determination of gender are basic civil rights.
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Tess Owen is a reporter covering civil rights for VICE News.
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Roberson's family disagrees, arguing that the shooting violated his civil rights.
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Till's death became a pivotal moment in the civil rights movement.
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We were impacted by the civil rights movement in our family.
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Hugh Hefner was a strong supporter of the civil rights movement.
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Additionally, Sandberg has formalized a civil rights task force at Facebook.
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The black church powered the civil rights movement led by King.
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She later participated in a study of the civil rights movement.
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Go deeper: Facebook commits to civil rights audit, political bias review
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Civil rights activists claim the Pulse massacre was a hate crime.
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We needed to strengthen our civil-rights laws in this state.
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The post-war history of civil rights in America was dismal.
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Though a gradualist on civil rights, he did not block progress.
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GUTFELD: And also... PERINO: But the Civil Rights Act was good.
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The other was a civil rights investigation spearheaded by federal officials.
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Soon, he became a foot soldier in the civil rights movement.
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Representatives of his family, civil rights lawyers and others, including Gov.
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Entitled the Civil Rights Data Collection, the survey is conducted biennially.
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The whole project of civil rights seemed to be on trial.
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Johnson passed landmark legislation on civil rights, education and health care.
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It also drew calls for reform from local civil rights activists.
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LEO TERRELL, CIVIL RIGHTS ATTORNEY: I would agree with that, Laura.
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"We believe it&aposs a civil rights violation," the attorney said.
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Consider: In the 1960s the Civil Rights movement was tracked through
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It's just, we've got to be careful, protect people's Civil Rights.
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His death became an important catalyst in the civil rights movement.
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Related: Trump is Not a Legitimate President: Civil Rights Icon Rep.
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The Justice Department has already opened a federal civil rights investigation.
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"Civil rights cannot just be for black people," Mr Allen says.
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He usually ruled in favor of plaintiffs in civil rights cases.
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Afeni Shakur (1947–2016), civil rights activist and former Black Panther.
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Why did the bus boycotts work during the civil-rights movement?
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But the ads are not a plea from civil rights activists.
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Civil rights organizations in Nebraska were quick to denounce Wednesday's operation.
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We'll lock arms & resist any effort to roll back civil rights.
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"He was the comedian of the civil rights movement," Baldwin says.
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The promise of civil rights progress seemed to have fallen apart.
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Civil rights groups say there is no distinction between the ideologies.
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Ossoff gained key endorsements from Johnson and civil rights legend Rep.
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The country was in the throes of the Civil Rights movement.
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"One civil rights movement was to end legal slavery," Jackson said.
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Board of Education and the civil rights movement, somewhere around 1950.
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That complaint has drawn supporting court filings from civil rights organizations.
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The Office for Civil Rights enforces Title IX, not the NCAA.
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Ms. Lynch noted that major civil rights victories have triggered backlashes.
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Lewis is widely considered an icon of the civil rights movement.
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The then-president documented Russell's presence during the civil rights movement.
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She was a tremendous champion for the civil rights and feminism.
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My family members, my parents were in the civil rights movement.
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Think Eleanor Roosevelt hosting civil rights leaders in the White House.
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He has been the subject of multiple federal civil rights lawsuits.
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The Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s is a great guide.
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John Lewis (D-Ga.), a civil rights icon, seconded the nomination.
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Joseph D'Souza is an internationally renowned human and civil rights activist.
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It conjures memories from a time when police trampled civil rights.
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A week later, House Democrats, led by civil rights icon Rep.
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Before that, Nanda worked in the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division.
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Amid the silence, the blood of civil rights martyrs cries out.
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America has experienced dark times with civil rights in the past.
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Vinson that sexual harassment violates the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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The LGBT civil rights group Human Rights Campaign has endorsed Sen.
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There is a vital civil rights dimension to the hacking issue.
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"For the better, certainly, was the civil rights revolution," he said.
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I've been involved in civil rights my whole career. Period. Period.
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West, a Sanders supporter, referred to civil rights leaders including Rep.
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Civil rights museums have always tied history lessons to current events.
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Colorado Civil Rights Commission, making comments that appeared contradictory at times.
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Immigration reform, income inequality and civil rights also come to mind.
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"I come out of the civil rights movement," Mr. deForest said.
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He embraced the early civil rights movement but did not identify
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Similarly, civil rights leaders are used to jargon common in Washington.
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Generally, U.S. Attorneys do not try non-criminal Civil Rights cases.
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Allred, a former NFL player and civil rights lawyer, unseated Rep.
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He was a true civil rights pioneer on & off the field.
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San Francisco also played a role in the civil rights movement.
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Critics say the question will penalize immigrants and threaten civil rights.
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Al Sharpton, the civil rights activist and broadcaster, told The Hill.
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Immigration policy was overhauled pretty thoroughly during the civil rights era.
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She sang at civil rights icon Rosa Park's funeral in 2900.
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Nitsana Darshan-Leitner is an Israeli activist and civil rights attorney.
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The civil rights leader will speak Thursday at 7:30 p.m.
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Till's death helped propelled the modern civil rights movement in America.
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Civil rights was the pivotal issue, but not the only one.
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"We're glad Twitter is pushing back," the civil rights group tweeted.
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Prosecutors must show that the officer willfully violated someone's civil rights.
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Polly Williams and civil rights activist Howard Fuller — and Republican Gov.
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His parents never forgave him for being a civil rights activist.
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He was a champion of civil rights but also an opponent
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Richard Russell, who was a strong opponent of civil rights legislation.
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NORMAN SIEGEL New York The writer is a civil rights lawyer.
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Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest LGBT civil rights organization, decided
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Adams isn't flanked by a group of fellow civil rights demonstrators.
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That is our call, and this is our civil rights movement.
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She was part of the soul of the civil rights movement.
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So I got law students a Civil Rights Research Council Grant.
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The civil rights group hailed the court for its ruling Monday.
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Bradford's parents hired national civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump last weekend.
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DeVos is setting the board for a major civil rights fight.
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The community also became active in the civil rights movement—Dr.
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It hits topics like theVietnam War and the civil rights movement.
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The leaders of the Civil Rights movement were in their 20s.
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Civil rights activists have vowed to protest should Slager be acquitted.
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Some speakers cited Conyers' long history as a civil rights activist.
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Jones's record on civil rights could boost him with black voters.
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Civil rights didn't happen in five minutes, but it did happen.
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When the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum opened its doors on Dec.
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The backlash against the Civil Rights movement continues to confound us.
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Colorado Civil Rights Commission, could be a sign of trouble ahead.
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But his record on civil rights has received relatively little attention.
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But Kennedy and Miller had experienced the civil rights movement firsthand.
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Joseph Lowery, a leader in America's civil rights movement, died Friday.
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Dr. Vincent Oliver, a Wilmington pastor and longtime civil-rights activist.
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As the civil-rights activist Michael Skolnik tweeted yesterday: Food confusion.
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Progressives should not hesitate to resist unjust encroachments on civil rights.
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"Flawed people were involved in the civil rights movement," she said.
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The civil rights movement involved not only adults, but children, too.
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He knew how important it was to honor civil rights history ...
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Jesse L. Jackson, the civil rights leader, was in the audience.
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For example, Trump used Twitter to criticize civil rights hero Rep.
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LA. Cities with landmark sites on the Civil Rights Trail. FLA.
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The outrage, he said, underscored the need for civil rights action.
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Mr. Guttentag has litigated civil rights cases throughout the United States.
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Federal civil rights laws already protect people with disabilities from discrimination.
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The idea of evoking the civil rights struggles inspired the team.
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" He added, "She was the soundtrack of the civil rights movement.
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In the 1960s the civil rights leaders suffered injustice and oppression.
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And the country's most important civil rights law would be dead.
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Sanchez says the defendants were negligent and violated her civil rights.
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The civil rights movement in Dallas, which was sort of nonexistent.
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Mr. Crump, a civil rights lawyer based in a Tallahassee, Fla.
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He'd been a civil rights attorney for the previous 25 years.
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The event, a civil rights breakfast hosted by activist the Rev.
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It's a legacy of their civil rights-era resistance to integration.
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The patriots of the civil rights movement spoke truth to power.
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Shreveport saw a lot of ugliness during the civil rights era.
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That's just one lesser known story about the civil rights icon.
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At this point, I'm going to deny restoration of civil rights.
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Civil rights violations in the name of "treatment" are still violations.
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Jim Crow gave us the civil rights movement, and the Rev.
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Let's not bury the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights.
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The civil rights law bans discrimination on the basis of disability.
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This Civil Rights Act is a challenge to all of us.
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How much do your students know about the civil rights movement?
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Perhaps the civil rights movement's central accomplishment was to stigmatize racism.
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After Monday's announcement, civil rights attorney Ben Crump and the Rev.
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He was less clear about his remarks about civil rights groups.
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Title IX is a civil rights issue, not a criminal one.
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They were often progressive community activists who had supported civil rights
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Sandberg on Tuesday released an update on Facebook's civil rights audit.
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His second wife, Doris Funnye, was also active in civil rights.
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The exhortations of civil rights activists assumed a Christian moral consensus.
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And it was met with immediate pushback by civil rights leaders.
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To fight for civil rights was to put oneself at risk.
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Citizens like the civil rights leader Rosa Parks and the Rev.
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I don't think the Civil Rights Act is going anywhere either.
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A federal Justice Department review later found clear civil-rights violations.
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In the '60s, her daughter said, she marched for civil rights.
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Mr. Most, 34, is a civil rights lawyer in New Orleans.
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In the '60s, her daughter said, she marched for civil rights.
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Thompson, a case from the height of the civil rights movement.
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Her civil-rights work did not sit well with her family.
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Civil rights law firms should continue to do battle in courtrooms.
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Civil rights activist Martin Luthor King Jr. was assassinated in 1968.
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Kennedy has long been regarded as a champion of civil rights.
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" And from the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law: "Mr.
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Legacy civil rights organizations should have emeritus status just like professors.
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For decades, the civil rights movement had somehow eluded cinematic storytelling.
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His father was a pediatrician, his mother a civil-rights activist.
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The chapel is dedicated to the civil rights heroine Rosa Parks.
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Transgender people hailed the step as victory for their civil rights.
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It's not clear yet who will lead Sessions's civil rights division.
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Many classic civil rights books and documentaries fail to mention him.
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This is not how civil rights laws are supposed to work.
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STEPHEN ROHDE Los Angeles The writer is a civil rights lawyer.
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Buttigieg and Davis joining hands at the Civil Rights Heritage Center.
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Now he is the director of HHS' Office of Civil Rights.
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The attorney is preparing a civil rights claim in Jean's death.
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Kennedy saw Patterson as an asset to the civil rights movement.
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There were no civil rights or equal pay protections at all.
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Lyndon Johnson shepherded the Civil Rights Act of 1964 through Congress.
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Eventually, Lewis, a civil rights icon, relented and withdrew his objection.
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Abernathy's work in the civil rights movement was not without risks.
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John Lewis as an inspiration for his courageous civil rights leadership.
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The "white civil rights rally" will be held in Lafayette Park.
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How aware were you of civil rights in the United States?
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He has sued civil rights activists, accusing them of voter fraud.
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This is the second federal civil rights case involving Thomas's death.
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But with the rise of the civil rights movement, things changed.
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Lyndon Johnson was horrible, but there was the Civil Rights Act.
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A unanimous decision from a Civil Rights–era case, NAACP v.
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Watch live as the demonstration, led by civil rights icon Rep.
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A new consensus has replaced the more sanguine civil-rights view.
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But it soon became an incubator for the civil rights movement.
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The federal Justice Department mulled civil rights charges that never came.
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He declined to apologize and defended his record on civil rights.
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On Thursday, a pair of black lawmakers — civil rights icon Rep.
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Turns out ... it's a guy who's championed civil rights for decades..
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There will be civil rights observers stationed at the security screenings.
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They are permanent "residents" without formal citizenship and many civil rights.
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The civil rights movement was also largely rural communities of color.
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All my "art" energy got channeled into queer civil-rights activism.
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As with other civil rights issues, there are several options here.
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"You would think at a time of increased national focus on civil rights and racial justice on the part of the Obama administration and the Black Lives Matter movement that the EPA would see an opportunity to do more on civil rights, not less," said Marianne Engelman Lado, attorney for Earthjustice, which is teaming with civil rights advocates in opposition to the rule.
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Related: 3 Black Women Photographers Capture the Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement Gold-Leaf Collages Contrast The Civil Rights Movement and The Space Race Chicago's Black Avant-Garde Art and Music Tradition Goes on Display
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Sharon McGowan, the strategy director of Lambda Legal and a former principal deputy chief of the Appellate Section at DOJ's Civil Rights Division, said the attrition of civil rights lawyers at DOJ is unusual under Sessions.
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The independent government agency, which is tasked with monitoring federal civil rights enforcement, unanimously approved a two-year probe into whether the cuts will allow federal civil rights offices to perform their duties under the law.
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My fascination with civil rights era imagery took a scholarly turn a decade ago while in graduate school in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where I began exploring the visual history of the city's long struggle for civil rights.
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Roger Then, 29, a City of Paterson police officer, was charged Wednesday with conspiring to violate an individual's civil rights and with misprision of felony for concealing that civil rights violation, the US attorney's office said.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump honored civil rights heroes and local officials during remarks at the opening of a civil rights museum in Mississippi on Saturday, staying on message despite recent criticisms of his appearance there.
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That Thomas would be the "replacement" for the iconic civil rights hero Thurgood Marshall was a cynical insult to admirers of Marshall's immense role in the early days of the civil rights battles of that time.
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"I've been involved in the civil rights movement since my college days, and I'm not sure I've ever been more confused than I am right now," said Sterling Tucker, 94, a civil rights leader in Washington.
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His opinion in the South Carolina case and his record in civil rights matters suggests that he will join with the court's conservative justices to further roll back voting rights protections and other civil rights laws.
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Since her appointment as the education secretary, Ms. DeVos has come under fire from lawmakers and civil rights advocates for her remarks about the department's role in enforcing civil rights laws in the public school system.
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A video capturing Mr. Johnson's hurried, last-minute haircut drew widespread attention and prompted a civil rights investigation by the New Jersey Division on Civil Rights, a part of the state's Office of the Attorney General.
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An F.B.I. official said the bureau and the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division were investigating "possible civil rights violations in connection with threats" to Jewish community centers across the country, but declined to provide further details.
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A leader of a civil rights group called Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, he was one of the participants in the key 1965 civil rights protest pushing for voting rights from Selma to Alabama's capital, Montgomery.
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But the Republican Party in the '50s was viewed as better on civil rights than the Democratic Party because of the Southern Democrats, and Nixon was viewed as very good on civil rights in the '50s.
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Civil rights, Clinton and abortion The issue of civil rights came up repeatedly throughout the hearing, both from Democrats trying to box in Sessions' positions and Republicans trying to give Sessions an opportunity to clear his record.
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The DOJ should be a champion for all students' civil rights and by signaling a willingness to be bound by the injunction nationwide they ae certainly signaling they aren't intending to pursue civil rights for transgender people.
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At the end of the Clinton administration, Perez served as deputy assistant attorney general for civil rights under Attorney General Janet Reno and led the Office for Civil Rights at the Department of Health and Human Services.
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For example, Facebook is also launching a civil rights audit to advise it on issues relating to the many demonstrable instances of housing discrimination that the company has allegedly enabled, as well as other civil rights issues.
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But this was the '60s, and the civil rights movement was in full swing: the March on Washington happened during his freshman year in college; the Civil Rights Act of 2000 was passed in his sophomore year.
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"The FBI's New Orleans Division, the Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Louisiana have opened a civil rights investigation into the death of Alton Sterling," he said in a statement.
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In an 8-3 ruling, the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on Tuesday concluded that federal civil rights law — specifically, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 — protects workers from discrimination based on sexual orientation.
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When she quizzed Zuckerberg on who's on Facebook's civil rights task force — to which he replied the company's chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg — Beatty pointed out that Sandberg doesn't have much of a background in civil rights.
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When Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights advocates took to the streets to protest racial segregation and disenfranchisement, their voices culminated in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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The civil rights protests of the 1960s — the lunch counter sit-ins, the marches and demonstrations — were essential to federal civil rights acts and the end of Jim Crow laws that segregated every aspect of the South.
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I mean, we have to remember that these movements, the civil rights movement between 1955 and 1964 and '65, which was when you have the Voting Rights [and] the Civil Rights Act, that's more than a decade.
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Trump toured the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum and delivered brief remarks, paying tribute to African-Americans who fought institutionalized racism, including Medgar Evers, the civil rights activist who was murdered outside his home in Jackson in 1963.
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As a civil rights leader who worked in the Jim Crow South, Nash saw white mobs tearing into young civil rights activists with baseball bats and poor black families kicked off their land for trying to vote.
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It is against this backdrop, and at this moment of reflection 60 years after the signing of the Civil Rights Act, that the Senate must consider President Trump's nominee, Eric Dreiband, to lead the Civil Rights Division.
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Tom Hayden, the main author of the influential Port Huron Statement and a civil rights activist who had been beaten in Mississippi while working for civil rights, was perhaps the most well-known political radical in Chicago.
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Just as civil rights groups in the 1960s allied with unions and religious leaders through umbrella groups like the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, student organizers need to do the same today to strengthen their political punch.
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During the civil rights era, Southern segregationists waged what Elena Kagan once called, in her pre-Supreme Court days, a "campaign which intended to curtail media coverage of the civil rights struggle" through libel lawsuits against journalists.
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In her book A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History, Theoharis seeks to expand the conversation about King and the fight for civil rights in the US as a whole.
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Jeff Sessions wants the Senate to know he did a lot of work on civil rights cases Jeff Sessions wants the Senate to know he did a lot of work on civil rights cases Before Alabama Sen.
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John Lewis, a civil rights icon and longtime Democratic congressman from Georgia.
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Sessions said he was keenly aware of civil rights and their importance.
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The Iraqis and civil rights groups representing them sued the federal government.
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Lewis was nearly beaten to death marching for civil rights in Alabama.
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So they often appropriate the rhetoric of civil rights and related causes.
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How did the Green Book help activists in the civil rights movement?
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They say they are deprived of decent living standards and civil rights.
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Well, I actually started out wanting to become a civil rights lawyer.
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He is currently a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
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He filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the district's school board.
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That suggests a sharp trade-off between crime reduction and civil rights.
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The Bush administration responded by defending its record on civil rights protection.
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Darryl Gray, a civil rights veteran, shared with AOC and her team.
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They raised their voices for women's rights, immigration and other civil rights.
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Four of the officers eventually pled guilty to violating Price's civil rights.
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A disheartening landmark The prosecution drew mixed reaction from civil rights groups.
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The ACLU is one of many civil-rights groups supporting the ordinance.
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Eleanor Roosevelt was dedicated to African-American civil rights, according to Jellison.
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Civil rights is about working to improve the lives of the oppressed.
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"That was the first civil rights movement I participated [in]," Zhao said.
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Martin L. King Jr. and his incredible career fighting for civil rights.
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Civil rights groups say social media giants have failed to confront extremism.
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And out of liberalism grew a post-war emphasis on civil rights.
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The Justice Department declined to bring federal civil rights charges in July.
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As attorney-general Mr Sessions will oversee civil rights and voting rights.
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Landry's lawsuit is seeking judgment that the student's civil rights were violated.
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As a young man Mr Kaine worked as a civil-rights lawyer.
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Google searches for the words, "Black Lives Matter" surpassed, "civil rights movement".
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American Playboy's detours into civil rights, Hollywood, and even the Vietnamese War.
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Point out Joe Biden's strong commitment to civil rights and civil liberties.
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This juxtaposition of white religious evangelicals with civil rights leaders is ironic.
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Garner's family and civil rights activists said the decision was long overdue.
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There are people who have marched for civil rights in this country.
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His murder would become a turning point in the civil rights movement.
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Cook has been an outspoken CEO, personally defending equality and civil rights.
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They came from lobbies for trade unions, civil-rights groups and businesses.
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John Lewis, a Democratic Congressman from Georgia and notable civil rights figure.
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Written in 1986, the letter criticizes the civil rights record of Sen.
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Take the civil rights movement — a model grassroots campaign for social change.
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He since has been charged with hate crimes and violating civil rights.
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The lawsuit claims that Mohamed's civil rights were violated in Irving, Texas.
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"The Civil Rights Struggle — Then and Now," talk by Theodora Lacey. Feb.
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George Wallace saw African Americans and civil rights as the internal enemy.
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It would be 74 years before Congress passed another civil rights act.
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The family plans to file a civil rights lawsuit by year's end.
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The changes received mixed reviews from civil rights organizations and other critics.
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The civil rights movement never recovered from the assassination of the Rev.
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Civil-rights advocates are doing what they can to prevent the deportations.
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At Michigan, he took up political causes including the civil rights movement.
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John Lewis, a Georgia Democrat and hero of the civil rights movement.
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But in the wrong hands, it could significantly violate people's civil rights.
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And that caricature is not who these civil rights lawyers stand with.
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After the civil-rights leader's murder, riots gripped more than 100 cities.
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But Ali didn't just do the work of a civil rights leader.
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A US Justice Department civil rights investigation into Garner's case is ongoing.
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The civil rights offense has a maximum penalty of life in prison.
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Is the right to vote the most urgent civil rights problem today?
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During the '60s, the rise of the civil rights movement was quickly
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American women out of the civil rights histories they helped shape. And
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Attorneys for the student filed a federal civil rights complaint that November.
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Jesse Helms, a staunch opponent of civil rights legislation and desegregation efforts.
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Matter firmly established as the continuation of the 1960s civil rights movement
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Nor would he be another Jackie Robinson, speaking out about civil rights.
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The slaying remains one of the nation's oldest unsolved civil rights cases.
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We garnered sympathy and with it came the advance of civil rights.
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The Civil Rights Act made nondiscriminatory practices the law of the land.
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The announcement was immediately criticized by LGBT leaders and civil rights groups.
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But civil rights advocates and conservationists applauded Obama's monument designations on Thursday.
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He announced a civil rights investigation would be opened into Heyer's death.
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Dick Gregory, the groundbreaking comic and Civil Rights-era icon, has died.
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Bethune was a school teacher before she became a civil rights activist.
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Civil rights groups said dangers lurk in the use of the data.
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Colorado Civil Rights Commission, in its next term, which starts in October.
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We can protect ourselves from terrorism and also protect our civil rights.
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Xoxo Hugh Hefner was a strong supporter of the civil rights movement.
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" Lauper continues, "In every civil rights campaign, everybody has to stand up.
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Unfamiliar with the history of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements?
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I often ask my students: When did the civil rights movement end?
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New season focuses on Muslim civil rights, female president-elect's CIA battles.
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They've exposed the lies of police officers who have violated civil rights.
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It shouldn't be difficult for civil rights leaders to oppose that vision.
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It's no coincidence the DNC chief formerly led DOJ's Civil Rights Division.
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It comes after mounting pressure from civil rights groups and consumer advocates.
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My great-grandfather was a civil rights leader back in the day.
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Buchanan opposed the civil rights movement long before bussing became an issue.
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Martin Luther King Jr., the civil rights movement as a moral imperative.
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Advocates for transgender rights hailed it as a breakthrough for civil rights.
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Mr. Kyles became a central figure in Memphis's struggle for civil rights.
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Civil rights groups filed two new lawsuits on Monday challenging Trump's ban.
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Her lawsuit is alleging that the hospital violated the Civil Rights Act.
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It was the largest demonstration for civil rights in the nation's history.
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He is one of the lawyers in American Civil Rights Union v.
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I grew up in a house that was dedicated to civil rights.
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They are both sworn and trained to protect lives and civil rights.
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JEFFREY A. ROTHMAN New York The writer is a civil rights lawyer.
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Thomas took the seat of the civil rights legend Justice Thurgood Marshall.
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She also worked on civil rights issues in Africa including drafting legislation.
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They met in a class at Yale on civil rights, he recalled.
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He will work with civil rights attorney John Relman on the project.
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Many successful civil-rights movements have adopted some type of economic protest.
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They defend the Confederate flag and oppose civil rights advances almost uniformly.
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She further cautioned that civil rights and voting rights are at risk.
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But political compromises, judicial undermining, and back stepping keep civil rights unsettled.
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Unfortunately, these new "civil rights warriors" have all but abandoned these values.
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But Democrats and civil rights leaders have largely rejected the new guidelines.
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Legislative compromise made possible the transformative civil rights legislation of the 1960s.
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John Lewis (D-Ga.), a hero of the civil rights movement, agreed.
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The Civil Rights Act didn't end racism, but it made things better.
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Like many later civil-rights activists, Trotter understood his arrest as strategic.
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Since then, officials have created a new body of civil rights law.
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We used to not have civil rights, and then we got them.
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Civil rights activist Deray Mckesson has joined Baltimore's crowded race for mayor.
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The National Park Service lists important civil rights sites on its website.
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Federal officials have also opened a civil rights investigation into the incident.
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He boasted liberal positions on "civil rights and civil liberties," and on
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Desegregation splintered the nation, as did the civil rights movement that followed.
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Biden later apologized but has staunchly defended his record on civil rights.
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The recent headlines reflect a broader trend, according to civil rights groups.
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Together they wrote T. R. M. Howard: Doctor, Entrepreneur, Civil Rights Pioneer.
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Russell is considered controversial because of his opposition to civil rights legislation.
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Just ask journalists who covered the Civil Rights movement in the South.
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Biden's comments were defended by some lawmakers, including civil rights veteran Rep.
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On the bench, Jackson sentenced civil rights activist and former Illinois Rep.
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Georgia congressman John Lewis, the civil rights leader, has also endorsed him.
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The one contrary example in modern liberalism was the civil rights movement.
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We can stop veterans' civil rights from being added to that list.
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Under Johnson's tenure, the landmark Civil Rights Act was signed into law.
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