Essays on Civil Rights

Pauli Murray was a champion for human and civil rights who was brought up in Durham. Her bits of knowledge and vision keep on resounding actually in our times. As a lawyer, antiquarian, poet, teacher, instructor and Episcopal minister, she worked all of her life...

A prominent part of the history of the United States is understanding the fight for personal freedom through civil rights. The bravery of those who have stepped up to defend their rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness have helped pave the way...

The two terms “Civil Rights” and “Civil Liberties” are usually involved in our daily conversations. We use these words so regularly that many of us don’t even realize we’ve been using them interchangeably and incorrectly. Even though we can say that they are similar to...

The Magna Carta was one of the first documents that kept power in check between a single authoritarian figure and the soon to be called bureaucrats of the land in the early medieval age period. The king was crossing lines in what he can do...

Civil liberties and civil rights are mechanical components that have influence on the way we live our lives. Each category can be applied in different situations, to identify different experiences for each individual. People in the US, for instance, have started to question whether democracy...

Throughout the Civil Rights Movement, many leaders emerged that captured the attention of the American public. During this period, the leaders used different tactics in order to achieve change. Two strong civil rights leaders, Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X were very well known...

Sometimes, people use cartoons to reflect on today’s society, talking about problems and laws in a humorous way. The Simpsons is an animated sitcom that was created by Matt Groening, who puts hilarity into the cartoon, to show the brutal satire of today’s society. The...

Civil Society Civil society is a powerful, yet vague theoretical concept and everyday practice. Whenever members of international organizations refer to democracy promotion or consolidation, local politicians talk about prosperity and welfare in their town or any non-governmental organization (NGO) writes a grant application, civil...

The liberty and general welfare are two theories in which supporting one can lead to adversarial effects on the other. Liberty means state of acting freely within a group or society from restrictions imposed by authority on one’s way of behavior, way of life or...

“Human rights are rights inherent to all human being, whatever our nationality, place of residence, sex, national or ethnic origin, color, religion, language, or any other status. We are equally entitled to our human rights without discrimination.” However, in places such as Saudi Arabia, “Research...

In the 1982 article “The Case for Torture,” Michael Levin argues for why torture should be “morally mandatory” in a variety of situations related to terrorist intelligence. Levin’s strongest bottom line is that he believes torture should (and must) be used to “prevent future evils”...

Today, one in all the foremost penetrating world problems talks regarding gender equality. Majority are aware that gender equality is human right, however why is it that our world still faces a persistent gap in accessing opportunities and higher cognitive process for men and women?...

Introduction Transgender is a person whose gender identity and psychological expression does not correspond with each other. Human existence whether physical or psychological is a diverse aspect, rather than appreciating the uniqueness of the diversity, we often treat them as inconsistent with nature. Transgender community...

This paper is focused on Malcolm X, a man who stands against the regular and normal civil rights act. Malcolm X was an activist who fought for people of color. In the US, people of color were restricted and isolated by the Jim Crow Laws...

Be part of social justice or social change means that you are fighting for every human being is treated justly, without discrimination based on financial status, race, gender, ethnicity, etc. In our day, there are no longer issues involving racial discrimination because of past events...

Imagine bus doors open and you walk in. You pay your fare and walk through the middle aisle. All around you, the white’s began pulling disgusted faces and spat where you walked. You did not seem bothered by this as this was an everyday occurrence,...

This essay is about Rosa Parks, a civil rights activist fighting for the equal and fair treatment of African Americans. She had such a huge impact she was later called the first lady of civil rights by the United Congress and she is also called...

Introduction Advocating, developing international human rights standards, monitoring human rights violations, service delivery and activism on human rights issues are the salient functions of several Non-government organizations (NGOs) especially in third world countries. In the globalized world order, the NGOs tend to fill the geographical...

Freedom to vote is one of the most important and the most hard-earned political right outside the bill of rights. We began as a nation where rights were restricted to only white men. It’s only because of perpetual hard work and the firm beliefs of...

In the following essay, I will talk about racism as a social structure using sociological concepts and perspectives. I will talk about racism, how it is produced and how it is considered or conceived. I will talk about how Bonnila-Silva argues about New racism, how...

Since the beginning of modern times, racism has been a noteworthy issue that has tormented the United States of America for a long time. It has been around in our nation since before the civil war and even today. Despite how far we have come,...

The Reconstruction era was a tumultuous period in the history of the United States. The Union victory during the Civil War in 1865 awarded African American slaves their freedom. During this time, it appeared as though the freed slaves would socially and politically assimilate themselves...

Racism is one of the main global issues that occur today. Racism is the belief that characteristics and abilities can be attributed to people simply on the basis of their race and that some racial groups are superior to others. Many of us create racial...

In the United States of America, the legal battle regarding civil rights has been ongoing and resulted in violent, impactful movements that have and continue to greatly impact our country. From the days of slavery, to the Jim Crow South, to current widespread mass incarceration,...

Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence 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.’ The criminalization of prostitution encroaches on these essential rights....

The Harlem Renaissance was a time of mass creativity within the black community in the Harlem neighborhood in New York. Their creative abilities shown through many ways such as spoken word and poetry, writing, artistry, and music. The time period also held some great intellectuals...

Abstract W.E.B Du Bois is one of the renowned scholars in the field of history, civil rights activism and above all, sociology. There is an interesting story of his life, deep-rooted in his well-spent years of success in the career of sociology. W.E.B Du Bois...

Human Rights has become a common topic of conversation within many social media platforms today. These important conversations help to educate us in what is happening around the world concerning the rights of human beings and also what rights we actually possess depending on where...

Human rights have recently been grounded firmly as a universal, cross-cultural concept that affects the way operations are undertaken. Social credit as a system introduced by the Chinese government has some impacts on these universal human rights. The system monitors and assesses people and businesses...