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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 21 December 2024. Landmark U.S. civil rights and labor law This article is about the 1964 Civil Rights Act. For other American laws called the Civil Rights Acts, see Civil Rights Act. Civil Rights Act of 1964 Long title An Act to enforce the constitutional right to vote, to confer jurisdiction upon the ...
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark civil rights and labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin. [7] It prohibits unequal application of voter registration requirements, racial segregation in schools and public accommodations, and employment discrimination. The act ...
Lyndon B. Johnson signs the historic Civil Rights Act of 1964. On July 2, 1964, Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, [76] which banned discrimination based on "race, color, religion, sex or national origin" in employment practices and public accommodations. The bill authorized the Attorney General to file lawsuits to enforce the new law.
President Lyndon B. Johnson hands a pen to Rev. Martin Luther King after signing the historic Civil Rights Act in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1964.
In 1939, the Department of Justice created the Civil Rights Section, which focused primarily on First Amendment and labor rights. [29] The increasing scrutiny of totalitarianism in the lead-up to World War II brought increased attention to issues of slavery and involuntary servitude, abroad and at home. [30]
President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 on July 2, 1964. The Great Society was a series of domestic programs enacted by President Lyndon B. Johnson in the United States from 1964 to 1968, with the stated goals of totally eliminating poverty and racial injustice in the country.
In 1947, the President's Committee on Civil Rights drafted a report titled, To Secure These Rights, which outlined a ten-point agenda on civil rights reform. [80] In 1948, as part of the Fair Deal , President Truman proposed a civil rights agenda to congress which included the elimination of the poll tax , a federal lynching ban, and the ...
At the time, Goldwater was at odds in his position with most of the prominent members of the Republican Party, dominated by so-called Eastern Establishment and Midwestern Progressives. A higher percentage of the Republicans and Democrats outside the South supported the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as they had on all previous Civil Rights legislation.