I don't know----I've always thought of civil rights as being the collective term for all individual rights. The government never gave anyone any rights, all were either enumerated or contained within the Ninth and Tenth Amendments; in any case, they all predate the Constitution. The Fourteenth Amendment just extended all of the guarantees to eliminate any preemption by the states.
I have never had a problem with the government "discovering" additional rights possessed by the people--the Constitution pointedly states in the Ninth and Tenth Amendments that the federal government has no powers which are not specifically stated in the Constitution, that all rights and powers not specifically granted to the federal government are the exclusive province of the states and the people.
We currently have a government that wishes the people to believe it has given them certain rights--the government can't give what it does not and never has had.
It is the common view today that “civil rights” is a term used to designate the “rights of minority groups”, especially those who are “politically correct”. The major problem with this view is that groups have no rights—individuals have rights, and all individuals have the same rights. Any other view is alien to our system of governing and should be eliminated.