Word: civil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decade of the most overwhelming social change our nation has ever seen. The battles over civil rights and the issues surrounding the Vietnam War were magnified in people's lives by the advent of televised news coverage. And the obvious inequalities which were being fought against lent credibility to the protests...
...Supreme Court session which ended with the announcement of theWebster decision will go down in history as a marker of our times. The Court's decisions subtly chipped away at many of the gains made in the civil rights era--most obviously in its decisions to narrow the interpretation of affirmative action and, with its ruling in Webster, pave the way for state regulation of reproduction...
...recent presidential elections showed us, America responds well to a sound bite. But how do we sound bite our fears about the Supreme Court's next three abortion cases? Or the importance of preventing any further erosion of civil rights...
Protest against Vietnam helped continue the activism of the Civil Rights Movement. Perhaps protest against this threat of injustice will also galvanize people to stop the gradual erosion of other rights which began in this session of the Supreme Court...
...former executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union has made quite a splash in Washington, tirelessly campaigning for more access to classified information and for more student financial...