Afro-descendant Civil Rights Movements in the United States. Another Human Rights Vision

Abstract

In the study of human rights, a notion has prevailed from legal studies that conceive them as elements inherent in an ambiguous idea of a human nature. However, from the critical point of view, positions have begun to emerge that highlight some weaknesses of naturalistic theory, such as protest school that is born of the link established between social movements and human rights. The aim of this work is to show, through an illustrative case, how is the struggle of people of African descent for the recognition of their civil rights in the United States during the period 1933-1968, which has not only challenged the classical notion of naturalism to explain the foundations of human rights, but also social movements are a striking example of how they are socially constructed, either by means of action to combat or legislative and judicial deliberations and which are also an unfinished topic that is expanding its composition through various fronts of mobilization of other groups or communities not favored with the apparent universalization derived from the notion of human nature.