American Civil Rights Movement Law and Legal Definition
American civil rights movement refers to African-American Civil Rights Movement which was an effort toward achieving true equality for African-Americans in all facets of society. The movement aimed at outlawing racial discrimination against African Americans in and restoring voting rights in Southern states. It also emphasized on fundamental issues of freedom, respect, dignity, and economic and social equality. The movement was qualified by major campaigns of civil resistance. Due to the resistance methods adopted by activist, federal, state, and local governments, businesses, and communities often had to respond immediately to crisis situations that highlighted the inequities faced by African Americans.
Legal Definition list
- American Civil Liberties Union
- American Bureau of Shipping [ABS]
- American Board of Professional Psychology [ABPP]
- American Board of Medicolegal Death Investigators [ABMDI]
- American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS)
- American Civil Rights Movement
- American Clause
- American College of Forensic Examiners International [ACFEI]
- American Community Survey
- American Continental Army
- American Convention on Human Rights
Related Legal Terms
- Abuse of Rights
- Acquired-Rights Doctrine
- Administration for Native Americans
- African Americans
- Agreement on Trade in Civil Aircraft
- Air Rights
- All Substantial Rights to a Patent [Internal Revenue]
- American 5-cent Coin Design Continuity Act of 2003
- American Academy of Actuaries [AAA]
- American Academy of Diplomacy
