civil rights
... One of the biggest struggles for justice was that of civil rights for minorities in the United States of America, mostly in the segregated South. While ‘civil rights’ is a term to define legal and constitutional rights entitled to all citizens, the fight for the rights of African Americans is what comes to most people’s mind when they here the term ‘civil rights’. In Civil Rights by Mary E Williams, the struggle for the civil rights issue is examined through political cartoons, which brings a little humor on matter. ... There was even a war that was set off because of the lack of civil rights for blacks, this war of course was the Civil War in 1861. The Civil War ended after five long years, with the defeat of the Confederacy in the South. After the Civil War there was a Thirteenth Amendment passed that abolished slavery everywhere in the United States. ... Many civil rights laws have been passed in the last hundred years or so. The Civil Rights Act of 1866 granted full citizenship to all people born in the United States, except Native Americans.