Civil Rights

Civil Rights refer to the class of rights that protect an individual's freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations and private individuals. They ensure one's ability to participate in the civil and political life of the society and state without discrimination or repression.

Civil rights include the ensuring of peoples' physical and mental integrity, life, and safety; protection from discrimination on grounds such as race, gender, national origin, color, age, political affiliation, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, and disability; and individual rights
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The Help
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To Kill a Mockingbird
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
March: Book Two (March, #2)
March: Book Three (March, #3)
The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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The Hate U Give
The Fire Next Time
Just Mercy
One Crazy Summer (Gaither Sisters, #1)
Between the World and Me
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I can't be a pessimist because I am alive. To be a pessimist means that you have agreed that human life is an academic matter. So, I am forced to be an optimist. I am forced to believe that we can survive, whatever we must survive. ...more
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Being an American is about having the right to be who you are. Sometimes that doesn't happen. ...more
Herb Ritts

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