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Pages in category "Civil rights organizations in the United States" The following 114 pages are in this category, out of 114 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Many protests during the civil rights movement were a response to police brutality, including the 1965 Watts riots which resulted in the deaths of 34 people, mostly African Americans. [43] The largest post-civil rights movement protest in the 20th-century was the 1992 Los Angeles riots , which were in response to the acquittal of police ...
Civil rights activists and Smith's friends and family disputed the law enforcement accounts of the incident. Local organization Communities United Against Police Brutality held a press conference near the shooting site on June 4 to call for officials to release video footage and other details of the shooting.
Charles Person, one of the Civil Rights Movement's original Freedom Riders, echoed organizers across Georgia when he urged a group of Generation Z and millenial activists to encourage young people ...
The right to assemble is recognized as a human right and protected in the First Amendment of the US Constitution under the clause, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of ...
Created in the 1950s, the Civil Rights Division leads the Justice Department’s enforcement of federal laws intended to combat discrimination in areas such as housing, employment and education.
A prime example of an equality-based movement is Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which mandates that institutions receiving federal funding cannot discriminate based on race, color, or national ...
James Bevel, minister, leader of the civil rights movement; Sojourner Truth, civil rights activist; Gloria Blackwell, civil rights activist, educator; Unita Blackwell, civil rights activist; W. E. B. Du Bois, civil rights activist; Julian Bond, civil rights activist, professor and writer; Lillie Mae Bradford, civil rights activist