---
kind: "unit"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
key: "ptI/ch13"
level: "chapter"
label: "Chapter 13"
heading: "Civil Rights"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/ptI-ch13"
sections_count: 10
---

# Chapter 13 — Civil Rights

Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal Procedure › Part I — Crimes

## Sections

- [§241. Conspiracy against rights](/usc/18/241.md)
- [§242. Deprivation of rights under color of law](/usc/18/242.md)
- [§243. Exclusion of jurors on account of race or color](/usc/18/243.md)
- [§244. Discrimination against person wearing uniform of armed forces](/usc/18/244.md)
- [§245. Federally protected activities](/usc/18/245.md)
- [§246. Deprivation of relief benefits](/usc/18/246.md)
- [§247. Damage to religious property; obstruction of persons in the free exercise of religious beliefs](/usc/18/247.md)
- [§248. Freedom of access to clinic entrances](/usc/18/248.md)
- [§249. Hate crime acts](/usc/18/249.md)
- [§250. Penalties for civil rights offenses involving sexual misconduct](/usc/18/250.md)