How Civil Rights are Expanding

Throughout the past few weeks we have been watching many different documentaries on Civil Rights. I think most of the time when one thinks "civil rights", their first thought is racism towards African-Americans. Even though, that is still a major issue involving civil rights, I was very curious and thought it was very interesting that we learned about a lot of other types of Civil Rights issues.

 By watching these documentaries, I learned how expansive the term "civil rights" is. There are now Civil Rights issues dealing with African-Americans, Latinos, Women and even sexual orientation. I think it is good progression that our society is making by really starting to deal with all of the other types of Civil Rights issues. Yes, civil right issues having to deal with race is still massively important, but there needs to be more talk about gender inequality and the lack of rights given to the LGBT Community. These issues are just as important. Everyone in American should be seen as equals and given the same opportunities and rights. And the same Civil Rights should be given to all citizens.