High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (Irish: Cumann Chearta Sibhialta Thuaisceart Eireann) was an organisation which campaigned for equal civil rights for the all the people in Northern Ireland during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Its central demand for full 'British' rights for all in what was universally recognised as part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland was exactly what made the peaceful NICRA campaign 20 November 2011 (UTC)such a powerful threat to the corrupt Unionist Party regime in Northern Ireland. The Ulster Unionist Party operated an entrenched system of party patronage in the allocation of state jobs and social housing and activily conspired to delay and distort the appication of British local franchise reform to Nortern Ireland. It actively promoted discrimination against the Roman Catholic minority and witheld the basic right of 'One man One Vote' as the very foundation of local government...