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It was founded by Christopher Edley, Jr. (formerly of Harvard Law School, now Dean of Boalt Hall Law School at UC Berkeley) and Gary Orfield (formerly of Harvard Graduate School of Education, now Professor of Education at UCLA's Graduate School of Education and Information Studies) in 1996 to provide needed intellectual capital to academics, policy makers and civil rights advocates.
Rights; Theoretical distinctions; Claim rights and liberty rights; Individual and group rights; Natural rights and legal rights; Negative and positive rights
The civil rights movement [b] was a social movement in the United States from 1954 to 1968 which aimed to abolish legalized racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement in the country, which most commonly affected African Americans.
Rights; Theoretical distinctions; Claim rights and liberty rights; Individual and group rights; Natural rights and legal rights; Negative and positive rights
Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights movement leaders in front of the statue of Abraham Lincoln during the March on Washington, August 28, 1963 Civil rights movements are a worldwide series of political movements for equality before the law, that peaked in the 1960s.
Civil Rights Act of 1866; Long title: An Act to protect all Persons in the United States in their Civil Rights and liberties, and furnish the Means of their Vindication.
The Civil Rights Cases, 109 U.S. 3 (1883), were a group of five landmark cases in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments did not empower Congress to outlaw racial discrimination by private individuals.
Introduced in the House as H.R. 2516 by Emanuel Celler (D–NY) on January 17, 1967; Committee consideration by Judiciary; Passed the House on August 16, 1967 (); Passed the Senate on March 11, 1968 () with amendment