Civil Rights

(2007). Civil Rights Timeline. Retrieved November 20, 2008, from Infoplease Web site: http://www.infoplease.com/spot/civilrightstimeline1.html

This web page gives a detailed look at the time line of the Civil Rights movement from 1954 until 2005. The time line mentions the Greensboro, N.C. sit in, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, President Johnson signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Malcolm X, the first mention of affirmative action, and the Black Panthers.

African-american civil rights movement. In Wikipedia [Web]. Retrieved November 20, 2008, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_Civil_Rights_Movement_(1955%E2%80%931968)

Wikipedia gives the following definition for what the The American Civil Rights Movement (1955–1968) refers to: the reform movements in the United States aimed at abolishing racial discrimination against African Americans and restoring suffrage in Southern states. This article covers the phase of the movement between 1954 and 1968, particularly in the South. By 1966, the emergence of the Black Power Movement, which lasted roughly from 1966 to 1975, enlarged the aims of the Civil Rights Movement to include racial dignity, economic and political self-sufficiency, and freedom from oppression by whites.

Richardson, V. (2008, November, 18). Gay rights abandoned on sidelines after election. The Washington Times, Retrieved November 21, 2008, from http://www.lexisnexis.com.ezproxy.hofstra.edu/us/lnacademic/results/docview/docview.do?docLinkInd=true&risb=21_T5196583647&format=GNBFI&sort=RELEVANCE&startDocNo=1&resultsUrlKey=29_T5196583654&cisb=22_T5196583653&treeMax=true&treeWidth=0&csi=8176&docNo=7

Gay rights this past election were not granted the right to marriage. The biggest defeat was Proposition 8, the California bill that overturned the California Supreme Court's decision on granting the right for gay marriage. The majority of those who voted for Proposition 8 were African-Americans, who also voted for Barack Obama.