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The most basic right of a citizen in a democracy is the right to vote. Without this right, people can be easily ignored and even d by their government.

What exactly constitutes “rights” and who holds them has changed over time. The 1776 Declaration of Independence famously declared “that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Who Was Mildred Loving? Mildred Loving (born Mildred Delores Jeter on July 22, 1939, died May 2, 2008), who was of African-American and Native American descent, became a reluctant activist in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s when she and her white husband, Richard Loving, successfully challenged Virginia’s ban on interracial …

Article and statistics from the 2000 Census about the history and contemporary characteristics of interracial dating and marriage among Asian Americans.

The civil rights movement (also known as the African-American civil rights movement, American civil rights movement and other terms) was a decades-long movement with the goal of securing legal rights for African Americans that other Americans already held.

The Situation, Spring 1966. For decades the NAACP, the Regional Council of Negro Leadership, and other Afro-American organizations fought to win voting rights for Mississippi Blacks.

During the less than 13 years of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s leadership of the modern American Civil Rights Movement, from December, 1955 until April 4, 1968, African Americans achieved more genuine progress toward racial equality in America than the previous 350 years had produced.

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St. Augustine FL, Movement — 1963 Photos. Saint Augustine is a small town of 15,000 on Florida’s Atlantic coast, just south of Jacksonville and not far from the Georgia border.

Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967) is a landmark civil rights decision of the United States Supreme Court, which invalidated laws prohibiting interracial marriage.. The case was brought by Mildred Loving (née Jeter), a woman of color, and Richard Loving, a white man, who had been sentenced to a year in prison in Virginia for marrying each