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Civil rights

The phrase civil rights, from 1945 through the March on Washington in August 1963. Newspaper pages from 1945 to 1963 on a map and timeline.

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23,766,177 pages from 4,691 newspapers, 1736–1963.

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47940 matching newspaper pages in total. Washington, DC has the most hits (10740 pages). Showing up to 10 earliest results from this city.

  1. Evening Star — 1945-01-26, page 1

    … the producer. Mr. De Mille sued the union over the assessment, declaring that his civil rights were impaired and seek ing to prevent its enforcement. I I [* % ! HENRYYOtHlI^ …

  2. Evening Star — 1945-01-27, page 9

    … American activity as any propaganda or action de signed to restrict or abolish the civil rights of Americans or to change by force the American form of Govern ment.” Arthur W. …

  3. Evening Star — 1945-01-28, page 1

    … people. Both were sentenced to “national indig nity,” which amounts to loss of civil rights. The first reaction of the public was that Maurras was spared from facing a firing …

  4. The Washington Daily News — 1945-02-01, page 11

    … entering wedge. i “Get the poll tax out of the way and :we will begin to hear about civil rights.” Weaver said, “and then about Jim Crow laws and all the rest.” DAMNYANKEES Weaver …

  5. Evening Star — 1945-02-04, page 33

    … than his brethern in defending the guarantees of tne Bill of Rights. The principal civil rights case coming before the court this term, however, brought about an unusual division …

  6. Evening Star — 1945-02-12, page 12

    … public in the Na tion s Capital, to give the Colored American Servicemen their civil rights? Would he say, "When they are hungry and tired in the shopping district, let them …

  7. The Washington Daily News — 1945-02-28, page 20

    … into Poland, with adequate provision for transfer of Germans or protection of the civil rights of those who remain, seems the lesser of the two evils. But we know of no justification …

  8. The Washington Daily News — 1945-03-02, page 20

    … and the Galician oil fields. To give East Prussia to Poland, with safeguards for civil rights of Germans who are not transferred, is a lesser evil than perpetuation of the war …

  9. The Washington Daily News — 1945-03-19, page 18

    … extension to a wider field of safeguards he proposed recently in a bill to protect the civil rights of individuals under investigation by con gressional committees. Rep. Hook is the …

  10. Evening Star — 1945-04-09, page 1

    … afire. From all its week end operations the RAF reported 13 aircraft miss ing. Civil Rights Suspended By Guatemala Assembly By the Associated Press. GUATEMALA, April 9.—Official …

    … statements announced today that an assembly measure had suspended for 30 days the civil rights articles of the Constitution. The measure is retroactive to April 4. Dispatches …

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