CIVIL RIGHTS Looking Back and Looking Forward
What are civil rights? Civil rights are all the benefits to which people are entitled because of their status as citizens of a country. They might include the right to fair treatment by an employer, a school, the police, and the government. They protect the right to live and travel wherever one chooses. They guarantee the right to vote. Civil rights laws commit the federal government to upholding those rights. A significant achievement of the Reconstruction era was the recognition
