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• n  right or rights belonging to a person by reason of citizenship including especially the fundamental freedoms and privileges guaranteed by the 13th and 14th amendments and subsequent acts of Congress including the right to legal and social and economic equality

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• A Look Back At How Newspapers Covered The Civil Rights Movement
  This week Audie Cornish travels to Birmingham, Ala., to revisit some of the stories that shaped that city and the nation in the summer of 1963. Today she talks with Hank Klibanoff, co-author of The Race Beat about how the newspapers covered the civil rights struggle fifty years ago.
  June 20, 2013 - NPR
• Civil rights and wrongs at heart of Supreme Court rulings
  WASHINGTON, DC – Civil rights, and wrongs, are at the heart of just about every case that gets to the Supreme Court, and lots of people hope this week`s decisions will right some wrongs. In 2004, Arizona began to require …
  June 19, 2013 - CW39 NewsFix
• Civil rights groups sue NYPD over Muslim spying
  NEW YORK (AP) – The New York Police Department’s widespread spying programs directed at Muslims have undermined free worship by innocent people and should be declared unconstitutional, religious leaders and civil rights advocates said Tuesday after the filing of a federal lawsuit.
  June 19, 2013 - Observer-Reporter