Synonyms. 1  They rode down a dirt path in the forest amid the thickets of bushes and trees. 2  The birds love the dense thickets and scrub and clumps of bushes like blackthorn that grow in the older sites of the park. 3  Barely 20 feet below us was a dense thicket of bushes, and there the car lay on its side, undamaged. They rode down a dirt path in the forest amid the thickets of bushes and trees. 2  The birds love the dense thickets and scrub and clumps of bushes like blackthorn that grow in the older sites of the park.
Hispanic-American civil rights embody the overall social and economic integration of Hispanics into American society. Hispanic Americans come from a variety of places throughout Latin America, including Cuba, Mexico, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and El Salvador; they may also come from Spain.
The Context of Civil Rights. Civil liberties refer to the freedoms guaranteed in the Bill of Rights, such as the freedom of speech or religion. Civil rights protect all persons from discrimination both by the government and other individuals. Initially, African Americans were the focus of civil rights protections, but the protections have expanded to cover other racial and ethnic groups, women, the elderly, the disabled, and gays and lesbians. African Americans. The most divisive civil rights issue with the greatest long-term impact has been slavery and its legacy. Slave labor was critical to the economy in America, particularly in the South, where slaves worked on plantations but also in many parts of the service economy (as carpenters, bakers, weavers, and so on).