Quote Originally Posted by 10buckstew View Post
. . .(America 'the free' didn't have Civil Rights passed until 1968!)
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Well, if you refer to the Civil Rights Act of 1965 as the beginning of civil rights in the US, then you should point out that the law is only applicable in the southern states. Which would, I guess, imply that the other 39 or so states (depending on whether you use Obama's count) have no civil rights.

A statement which I believe begs a reference to the first 10 amendments to the Constitution (Commony refered to as the Bill of Rights) which guaranatee civil rights. They may not have been universally applied, but they were not invented in 1968.

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