Lastly, depending on your employer, you'll need an associate's degree and a paralegal certificate or an associate's degree with a focus on paralegal studies. Most associate's degree programs, like the one offered at the National Paralegal College (see Resources below), takes about 7 months. Once you've earned your paralegal certificate, you will have many exciting employment opportunities, and not just at law firms. 2  Banks, airlines, non-profit organizations, hospitals, the government and many others hire certified paralegals.
CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. The civil rights movement was a freedom struggle by African Americans in the 1950s and 1960s to gain equality. The goals of the movement were freedom from discrimination; equal opportunity in employment, education, and housing; the right to vote; and equal access to public facilities.he nonviolence of the civil rights movement and the power of the federal government over the states were tested as African Americans sought to make use of the rights that had been confirmed by the Supreme Court.
For some, the goals of the feminist movement were simple: let women have freedom, equal opportunity and control over their lives.Here are some specific feminist movement goals from the â second wave â of feminism. 1  Rethinking society with feminist theory.2  This was accomplished by, among other disciplines, womenâs studies, feminist literary criticism, gynocriticism, socialist feminism and the feminist art movement. 3  Abortion rights on demand. Leaders of the womenâs liberation movement were clear that women should have reproductive freedom and safe access to legal abortion.  2 De-Sexing the English Language. 3  Feminists helped spark debate over assumptions embedded in our language that reflect the assumption of a male-dominated patriarchal society.