 During the course of the Civil Rights Movement, a relatively narrow idea of civil rights began to dominate public discourse and became the standard idea of what such rights encompassed. The term ’civil rights’ came to refer, not to the full set of claims constitutive of free and equal citizenship, but to rights against discrimination, initially denoting discrimination based on race and ethnicity but soon expanding to include sex, disability, sexual preference and other salient categories of social and personal identity. The older and broader idea of civil rights as the full set of claims belonging to free and equal citizens was eclipsed, as the kinds of issues commonly characterized as involving civil rights became exclusively concerned with matters of discrimination.