civil rights
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Tell me about your mother, who was a civil rights activist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
Zaentz said UC would continue to defend speech and civil rights.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
The Bloody Sunday Inquiry, which found the killing of 13 civil rights protesters in Northern Ireland by British soldiers was "unjustified", took 12 years to complete and cost more than £190m.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
It passed civil rights acts that guaranteed birthright citizenship and enacted Reconstruction Acts that secured black suffrage in the South.
From Slate ● Sep. 16, 2026
He asked the Reichstag members to suspend civil rights, and they did.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
