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What was the result of the civil rights movement?

What was the result of the civil rights movement?

The Civil Rights Act of 1964, which ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin, is considered one of the crowning legislative achievements of the civil rights movement.

What rights did civil rights leaders pursue after segregation was made illegal?

Why was Thurgood Marshall famous in the civil rights movement even before he joined the Supreme Court? What rights did civil rights leaders pursue after segregation was made illegal? the right to vote and own property. How did President Lyndon Johnson feel about civil rights issues?

What were the major pieces of legislation that came about as a result of the civil rights movement of the 1960s?

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Amendment/Act Public Law/ U.S. Code
Civil Rights Act of 1960 P.L. 86–449; 74 Stat. 86
Civil Rights Act of 1964 P.L. 88–352; 78 Stat. 241
Voting Rights Act of 1965 P.L. 89–110; 79 Stat. 437
Civil Rights Act of 1968 (Fair Housing Act) P.L. 90–284; 82 Stat. 73

What was the most significant event in the civil rights movement?

Arguably one of the most famous events of the civil rights movement took place on August 28, 1963: the March on Washington. It was organized and attended by civil rights leaders such as A. Philip Randolph, Bayard Rustin and Martin Luther King, Jr.

What are the 13 human rights?

Appendix 5: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (abbreviated)

Article 1 Right to Equality
Article 11 Right to be Considered Innocent until Proven Guilty
Article 12 Freedom from Interference with Privacy, Family, Home and Correspondence
Article 13 Right to Free Movement in and out of the Country

How many rights are there?

30

How many humans rights are there?

The UDHR is widely recognized as having inspired, and paved the way for, the adoption of more than seventy human rights treaties, applied today on a permanent basis at global and regional levels (all containing references to it in their preambles).

Why healthcare is a human right?

Among all the rights to which we are entitled, health care may be the most intersectional and crucial. The very frailty of our human lives demands that we protect this right as a public good. Universal health care is crucial to the ability of the most marginalized segments of any population to live lives of dignity.