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**Minority Rights**

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**Possible terms to search**

Women's Rights Women's Liberation Feminism

Child Labor Minors' rights Legal rights of minors Juvenile justice

Disability

**UDLibSearch Links **

[|The Universal Declaration of Human Rights]

[|Human Rights]

[|Stange Bedfellows: War and Minority Rights]

[|Women's Rights Timeline] [|Feminism]

<span style="background-color: #b3e496; color: blue; display: block; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">[|Equal Rights Amendment]

<span style="background-color: #b3e496; color: blue; display: block; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">[|Laws That Discriminate on the Basis of Gender Are Unconstitutional]

<span style="background-color: #bbbbec; color: blue; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;">[|Gay Rights Timeline]

<span style="background-color: #bbbbec; color: blue; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;">[|Gay Rights]

<span style="background-color: #bbbbec; color: blue; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;">[|At Issue: Workplace Discrimination]

<span style="background-color: #dae175; color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;">[|At issue: School Uniforms]

<span style="background-color: #a2e2e2; color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">[|Civil Rights Timeline] <span style="background-color: #a2e2e2; color: blue; display: block; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">[|Civil Rights] <span style="background-color: #a2e2e2; color: blue; display: block; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">[|Civil Rights Act of 1991] <span style="background-color: #a2e2e2; color: blue; display: block; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">[|Topic Overview: Civil Rights]

<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;">[|At Issue: Rights of Non-Mainstream Religions]

<span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">**Databases for Further Research** <span style="background-color: #d7d5d5; color: blue; display: block; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;">[|Student Resources in Context]

<span style="background-color: #d7d5d5; color: blue; display: block; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;">[|SIRS Knowledge Source]

<span style="background-color: #d7d5d5; color: blue; display: block; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;">[|Opposing Viewpoints in Context]

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">**Helpful Dewey Numbers**
<span style="background-color: #cdefb9; color: black; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13px;">305.42 Social role and status of women (discrimination against women, women's liberation movement)

<span style="background-color: #cdefb9; color: black; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13px;">305.9 Miscellaneous social groups

<span style="background-color: #cdefb9; color: black; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13px;">323 Civil and political rights

<span style="background-color: #cdefb9; color: black; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13px;">342 Constitutional and administrative law (including civil rights, individual rights)

**<span style="font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Print Resources **
**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Nonfiction **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Carnes, Jim, Harry A. Blackmun, and Herbert Tauss. //Us and Them: a History of Intolerance in America//. New York: Oxford UP, 1996. Print. <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Georgia,serif;">305.8 CAR

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Hermann, Spring. //The Struggle for Equality: Women and Minorities in America//. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow, 2006. Print. 323.0973 HER

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Jacobs, William Jay. //Human Rights//. New York, NY: Scribner, 1990. Print. 920.073 JAC

**<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Reference **
McKissack, Pat, and Fredrick McKissack. //The Civil Rights Movement in// //America:////from 1865 to the Present//. Chicago: Childrens, 1991. Print. <span style="background-color: #ffff00; display: block; font-family: georgia,serif; text-align: left;">REF 973.MCK

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800000; display: block; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">**Internet Resources** <span style="background-color: #d4d4f7; color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: georgia,serif; text-align: center;">[|American Civil Liberties Union]

<span style="background-color: #d4d4f7; color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: georgia,serif; text-align: center;">[|Minority Rights Group International]

<span style="background-color: #d4d4f7; color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|U.S. Statements on the Rights of Minority Women] - Delivered by Margaret Wang to the Fourth Session of the Forum on Minority Issues under the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.on 29 Nov. 2011 in Geneva, Switzerland.

<span style="background-color: #d4d4f7; color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Children's Rights] .United Nation's Background Note. Published by the United Nations Department of Public Information * DPI/1765/HR--December 1995

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800000; display: block; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: right;">**‍Community Resources** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800000; display: block; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: right;"> **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">ACLU of Delaware ** <span style="display: block; font-family: georgia,serif; text-align: right;">Executive Director: Kathleen MacRae <span style="display: block; font-family: georgia,serif; text-align: right;">100 West 10th Street, Suite 603Wilmington, DE 19801 <span style="display: block; font-family: georgia,serif; text-align: right;">Phone: (302) 654-3966 | Email: aclu@aclu-de.org <span style="display: block; font-family: georgia,serif; text-align: right;">Web: http://www.aclu-de.org

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">**NBC Learn Videos**
<span style="background-color: #f0cbcb; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Supreme Court Rules Against Minorities in Reverse Bias Case]

<span style="background-color: #f0cbcb; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|The Right to Vote]

<span style="background-color: #f0cbcb; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Supreme Court Rules Against Woman in Sex Discrimination Case]

<span style="background-color: #f0cbcb; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|President Obama Backs Working Women with First Legislative Act]

<span style="background-color: #f0cbcb; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Supreme Court Rules on Rights of the Mentally Retarded]

<span style="background-color: #f0cbcb; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|"Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Is History]