The Civil Rights Act of 1964 did not involve voting rights nor prohibit segregation. There was a separate Voting Rights Act. The PURPOSE of CRA 1964 was to regulate how governments, large ionstitutions and large employers dealt with discrimination and bias on account of race, sex, and religion.
After the segregationist governor of Alabama tried to prevent two black students from enrolling at the University of Alabama in June 1963, US President John F. Kennedy gave a televised civil rights address in which he called for a bill that would eliminate segregation. The bill was being stalled in the Congress until Kennedy was assassinated and President Lyndon Johnson was able to get the bill to pass by invoking the slain JFK's memory.
The most comprehensive civil rights legislation was passed by Congress and signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited discrimination for reason of color, race, religion, or national origin in places of public accommodation, and anything covered by interstate commerce. That included restaurants, hotels, motels, and theaters. The act also forbad discrimination in employment and discrimination on the bases of sex.
the civil rights act of 1964 was a time of great discrimination. the civil rights act of 1964 prevented some people to stop dicriminating by their sex, race, color or national origion.
It allowed prosecution of civil rights violators.
to protect citizens
Gave blacks the right to vote.
Except housing issues.
It banned bias in hiring.
to fight discrimination based on race and sex
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A civil rights act
that direct, nonviolent methods could gain civil rights for African Americans.
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Congress used the authority found in the Commerce Clause of the Constitution to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The act was signed into law by Lyndon B. Johnson.
The Civil Rights Movement was a movement by the people, not a law to be passed by congress. A result of the Civil Rights Movement was the consideration of many bills passed by congress into law. Among them were the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968.
Some of the facts about the suspension of constitutional rights in the US during the US Civil War was limited powers that were weakened further by the Bill of Rights.
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It was the first civil rights bill passed by Congress since Reconstruction.-Novanet
To put pressure on Congress to pass a civil rights bill.
fourteenth amendment
Cilvil rights act of 1964
Congress overruled Johnson's veto.
The Amish have all the rights as any other American of any other religion.