The Evolution of Civil Rights in USA: Enduring Fight Against Racism With Legislation
Landmark Documents on Equality, Voting Rights, and Racial JusticeBy U.S. Government, U.S. Supreme Court
Length22h 53m
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The Evolution of Civil Rights in USA: Enduring Fight Against Racism With Legislation assembles a documentary record of the American struggle to translate constitutional equality into enforceable public policy. Moving between legislative language, judicial reasoning, and institutional declarations, the volume traces how civil rights have been defined, contested, and revised across changing historical circumstances. Its distinctive force lies in the juxtaposition of foundational legal principles with decisions and measures that expose the persistent distance between formal rights and lived racial justice. Attributed to the U.S. Government and the U.S. Supreme Court, the collection foregrounds institutions central to the nation's legal response to racial discrimination. Congressional and governmental materials situate civil-rights reform within the development of federal authority, while Supreme Court opinions reveal the interpretive struggles surrounding equal protection, segregation, voting, education, and access to public life. Together, these official voices place the book in the long arc of Reconstruction, Jim Crow, the modern Civil Rights Movement, and continuing debates over racial equity. This volume is recommended for students, researchers, and citizens seeking a rigorous introduction to civil-rights history through its primary legal texts. It offers the unusual opportunity to read legislation and jurisprudence in dialogue, discerning both the achievements and limits of legal reform. Its breadth encourages informed reflection on racism's endurance and on law's contested capacity to secure justice.
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GenrePolitics and Government, Literary Classics
Length22 hrs 53 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
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Publish dateJul 3, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Evolution of Civil Rights in USA: Enduring Fight Against Racism With Legislation
2The Collected Works
3Emancipation Proclamation & Gettysburg Address (1863)
4Emancipation Proclamation
5PROCLAMATION 93
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6PROCLAMATION 93- Changed by William Seward
7PROCLAMATION 95
8Gettysburg Address
9LEGISLATION
101. Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
112. Civil Rights Act of 1866
12An Act
13SECTION II
14SECTION III
15SECTION IV
16SECTION V
17SECTION VI
18SECTION VII
19SECTION VIII
20SECTION IX
21SECTION X
22PRESIDENTIAL VETO
23VETO OVERRIDE
243. Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (1868)
254. Reconstruction Acts (1867-1868)
26ACT OF MARCH 2, 1867
27ACT OF MARCH 23, 1867
28ACT OF JULY 19, 1867
29MARCH 11, 1868
305. Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (1870)
316. Enforcement Acts (1870-1871)
32ENFORCEMENT ACT OF 1870
33FIRST ENFORCEMENT ACT OF 1871
34SECOND INFORCEMENT ACT OF 1871 (KU KLUX KLAN ACT)
357. Civil Rights Act of 1875
368. Executive Order 9981 (1948)
379. Voting Rights Law of 1965
3810. Executive Order 11246 (1965)
39PART I- NONDISCRIMINATION IN GOVERNEMNT EMPLOYMENT
40PART II- NONDISCRIMINATION IN EMPLOYMENT BY GOVERNMENT CONTRACTORS AND SUBCONTRACTORS
41PART III- NONDISCRIMINATION PROVISIONS IN FEDERALLY ASSISTED CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTS
42PART IV- MISCELLANEOUS
4311. Fair Housing Act (1968)
4412. United States Code Title 18 Chapter 13 (1968, 1976, 1988, 1994, 2009)
45Sec. 242 - Deprivation of rights under color of law
46Sec. 243 - Exclusion of jurors on account of race or color
47Sec. 244 - Discrimination against person wearing uniform of armed forces
48Sec. 245 - Federally protected activities
49Sec. 246 - Deprivation of relief benefits
50Sec. 247 - Damage to religious property; obstruction of persons in the free exercise of religious beliefs
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