ABSTRACT
Many dimensions of human rights have been discussed thus far, but not all. History and statistical evidence prove that mainstream groups get human rights on mainstream issues before anyone else. Indeed, as civil rights progress for ethnic and racial minorities occurred in the 1960s, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) discovered that several types of persons had fallen through the cracks, excluded from enjoying the rights of free speech, free press, and the like. Such persons, who together constitute a numerical majority, were still hobbled by restrictions imposed by the dominant group in American society. Accordingly, ACLU began a series of publications under the title The Rights of — focusing on aliens, chronically and acutely ill persons, crime victims, the disabled, former offenders, gays and lesbians, hospital patients, military personnel, the poor, prisoners, refugees, single people, suspects, tribes and native peoples, women, and young people. A volume on the rights of adoptees is lacking, and other categories could doubtless be added. Currently, ACLU has discontinued the series, which is out of print. Although some issues on their list have been covered in the chapters above, others have not.
