Civil Rights?
What Civil Rights policy measures should the Obama administration implement?
"The teenagers and college students who left their homes to march in the streets of Birmingham and Montgomery; the mothers who walked instead of taking the bus after a long day of doing somebody else's laundry and cleaning somebody else's kitchen -- they didn't brave fire hoses and Billy clubs so that their grandchildren and their great-grandchildren would still wonder at the beginning of the 21st century whether their vote would be counted; whether their civil rights would be protected by their government; whether justice would be equal and opportunity would be theirs.... We have more work to do."

-- Barack Obama, Speech at Howard University, September 28, 2007

Source: Change.gov
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What should Obama do next? »What should Obama do next?
Human Rights? »Human Rights?
Civil Rights?
Combat employment discrimination »Combat employment discrimination
Eliminate Sentencing Disparities »Eliminate Sentencing Disparities
End Deceptive Voting Practices »End Deceptive Voting Practices
Expand adoption rights »Expand adoption rights
Expand the use Drug Courts »Expand the use Drug Courts
Repeal Don't Ask-Don't Tell »Repeal Don't Ask-Don't Tell
Strengthen Hate Crimes Statutes »Strengthen Hate Crimes Statutes
Support Full Civil Unions and Federal Rights for LGBT Couples »Support Full Civil Unions and Federal Rights for LGBT Couples
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