Response Questions for Journal 15: 1. During the presidency of Lyndon Johnson, was the United States growing more united and inclusive, or divided and contentious? Explain. Johnson lobbied for the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which made discrimination based on race, religion, and gender illegal. Johnson’s Great Society programs were also created to eliminate social injustices in America.…
Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, no employer can discriminate against an employee based upon race, color, religion, sex or national origin. When Shaun is demoted by Montgomery ’s it was because the customer (Phil) made a false complaint about her supposedly saying a racial slur towards Phil. Thus under federal law Shaun was not discriminated against because the law only applies to undesirable employer actions against employees based upon Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which is race, color, sexual orientation, national origin and so on. Shaun being demoted was not based on those examples; it was based on her alleged behavior.…
Pervious, the amendments to add age to the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was rejected. There were several reasons for excluding age from Title VII. First, Congress felt there were not enough information to enacted into legislation. Second, Congress feared adding Age would overload the Civil right measure and as a result cause defeat. Finally, in 1964, Congress did not understand the importance of the Age discrimination problem.…
Timeline of Significant Policies Civil Rights Act of 1964: This act made segregation of all public places illegal. Prior to this act, cities could maintain separate facilities for white and black Americans. There were separate schools, buses, businesses, restrooms, hospitals, and theaters. This segregation was made possible by the Supreme Court ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson, which established the policy of “separate but equal.”…
This development kept going from around 1955 to 1968. Its objectives were to annul racial segregation in numerous territories including open transportation, business, voting, and instruction. Peaceful dissents and common insubordination amid this time brought on numerous emergency circumstances where the administration needed to make a move. These demonstrated the disparities and foul play that was occurring to Blacks. The dissents were finished with sit-ins, walks, and blacklists.…
By the turn of the nineteenth century America was a new and prosperous young nation, being built upon principles of ‘liberty’ and ‘freedom’. By the middle of the decade the nation was struggling to hold true to these principles, as it denied rights to Native Americans, women, and Blacks. Although the injustice was greatly resisted: Native Americans fought to keep their land, women fought for equality, and blacks were faced with the unrelenting task of fighting for freedom. One of the most notable cases of blacks fighting for their rights happened in the 1850s with Dred Scott. Scott was an African American slave who sued for his freedom in 1857 in Dred Scott v. Sanford; the case is commonly known as the Dred Scott Decision.…
The Civil Rights were a long and tumultuous time in our country, and was the cause of many great figures to rise up in our history and many great speeches to be written by those figures. The Civil Rights Movement had a great impact on our nation, and it is important today to understand and learn about that time through close reading projects like the speech given by a president during the Civil Rights Movement about the Civil Rights Act of 1964. One is able to discern who the speaker is, what the speaker’s style is, and whom the speaker is addressing by analyzing the words and phrases given in the speech. One can tell that the speaker must have been a president, because he was "about to sign into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964", and signing…
The civil rights act was a blessing to many people in the sixties. It allowed african americans and native americans to take racists and segregationists to court for restriction of equal rights that were given to other people. The african americans gained popular following by a majority of the united states and caused the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to be signed by LBJ (Lyndon B. Johnson). The events here gave way to many court cases that shaped the way they would be handled in the future. Before the act was signed, many people fought to make this happen.…
Impact on Civil Rights Movement The decision from the Brown v. Board of Education case advanced racial integration first in education, and eventually in public spaces, housing, and transportation. Brown tried to address past inequalities, promoted equal opportunities in public education, and extend equal protections of law for racial minorities. As a result, Brown became known for more than an education policy case. Brown v. Board of Education paved the way for future congressional legislation and Supreme Court decisions such as the 1957 Civil Rights Act. The 1957 Civil Rights Act would not have passed civil rights legislation when it did without the Brown v. Board of Education case.…
Countless stories, books, articles, and documentaries have been written and told about the civil rights movement, but far less attention has been shown to what happened after the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed, I hope not only to discuss what happened after the act was passed, but also give insight into the injustices that are still happening today. The United States Constitution was drafted in part to protect every American citizen and to further ensure equal rights. However, it is well settled that States have abused “equal sovereignty under the 10th amendment to the Constitution to subvert Federal laws an advance discriminatory practices. The Supreme Court’s decision in Shelby County v. Holder disregarded the constitutional intent…
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was crucial in opening the door for integration of blacks into white schools. Prior to the passage of the Civil Rights Act, integration was not enforced and black families and leaders who were courageous enough to fight for integration were often threatened and became victims of racial violence. Although the 1954 Supreme Court decision, Brown v. Board of Education, ruled that state sanctioned segregation was a violation of the 14th Amendment, many school districts across the country ignored this ruling and continued a policy of segregation. For example, community groups, such as the White Citizens Council, actively fought against integration and often pressured businesses and financial institutions to punish those…
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.…
Achieving Racial Equality Within The United States Out of all the cases that have dealt with racial inequality and segregation Brown v. Board Of Education of Topeka has to be number one on the list for having the biggest impact on those topics. Brown v. Board of Education was a case that would determine the outcome of public education in the United States. It all started with Plessy v. Ferguson when the court created the “separate but equal” doctrine. This doctrine states that if a school choose to be racially segregated that they must provide a separate facility that provides the same accommodations as the original school (this originally was not intended for schools but instead for transportation).…
From studying the social impacts and reforms it had on the life of Americans, the Civil Rights Movement was a successful movement. The Civil Rights Movement had many strengths that helped defeat segregation, such as the amount of supporters of civil rights for African Americans. Also, there are weaknesses such as the integration of racism as well as the use of violence and terror upon supporters of the movement. The Civil Rights Movement was able to achieve its reform by having a high amount of supporters of civil rights for African Americans who protested, resisted legal and cultural racism.…
Minorities, especially African Americans who were discriminated the most, were able to receive the same level or quality of education, right to vote and work without it being illegal.…