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Civil rights may include the right to vote, right to property, right to bear arms, right to free speech, right to associate, etc.
In 1964 civil rights workers Michael Schwerner[?], Andrew Goodman and James Chaney[?] were lynched by the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi. Their deaths shocked the United States' public and Congress and is one of the events that helped pass the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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