Essay On The Civil Rights Act Of 1964

The civil Rights Act of 1964 is consisted of three different civil Rights acts, the first one is the one that study abuses, the second one is the one that says that the fourteenth amendment cannot be ignored, especially when is related to voting. The third one is about equal pay to women. In the civil Rights of 1964 is when everything started changing for African Americans and also strengthens the first and second Acts. The provisions that came with the Civil Rights Act of 1964 were great. All of them were enforced right away but they were not fully accepted for the Caucasians, the accommodations were integrated to daily basis within 10 years after the Civil Rights were passed. One of the provisions was public accommodations which was one of the most notable way of racism. In restaurants, restrooms , water fountains, …show more content…
Also, any people in public could ride any bus without being discriminated or removed from the seat because he or she was black. Also, discrimination of employment gave black people, women any person the right to work or to apply in any company without the fear to be discriminated for his color, or sex, or any other reason. This accommodation of equality to everyone gave hope the black community. The consequences of Civil Rights legislation were the barriers that the Congress established so the black community and the minority could not vote. One of the barriers was the literacy, if they were not able to read or write they could not vote. Also, the congress established some tests to see if they were able to vote, and also the black community was threaten, congress said they were going to put some criminal penalties if black people tried to vote. Years later all these things were banned and all the black communities could vote without doing any of the previous