Civil Rights

The body of legal rights and protections guaranteeing equal treatment under law regardless of race, religion, gender, or other characteristics, and the social/political movement in the mid-20th-century United States that fought to secure them. The term also refers to the era that followed that movement, which is often referenced as a historical pivot in analyses of American politics, law, and social attitudes.

Claims that use this term

• Rokeach’s dogmatism research was shaped by US Cold War and Civil Rights contexts
• White fear of Black criminality became a political resource after the Civil Rights era
• Wolf appropriated Civil Rights imagery to inflate vaccine mandates into Jim Crow
• Civil Rights support was compatible with liberal faith in the system