Out of everything that the American people hold dear, one of the most important is their civil rights. Some people may not see it that way, but others are so highly dependent on their civil rights that they use it so much to almost be a bad habit to get their way when they cannot any other way. Civil rights are a good thing if taken and used the right way. The people may know and love their civil rights, but do they know how the 1964 Civil Rights Act was passed by law. Do they realize how the U.S Supreme Court System interpreted the 1964 Civil Rights Act? Some may know and some may not know, depending on the level of education and if they were to have paid attention or not. Those same guy of people may also say that the act completely got
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For the ones that may not know what the 1964 Civil Rights Act achieved, it ended racial segregation and made most forms of discrimination, that included in places like schools, the work place, and even in public, against the law. It was first proposed by President John F. Kennedy, but it never actually made it to the voting process due to the fact that the majority of southern congress was determined to basically ignore the act. In 1964, when President Johnson came to office after the assassination of President Kennedy, he was determined to get in passed into law. President Johnson used his known forceful personal powers to basically threaten the people to vote for the act. Along with using Kennedy’s death to push for the votes as well, saying that the people would be remembering Kennedy by voting for the act that he had originally proposed. The act went through an 83-day filibuster that was the longest in history and it also survived the strong southern opposition before President Johnson was able to officially sign it into law in the summer of …show more content…
It may as well alleviate some of the discrimination, but I do not believe that it will get rid of everything. That is due to the fact that some people may feel like they deserved more than another guy or they believe that one guy does not deserve the same privilege as they do, because maybe the guy did not perform as well as the others. There may be many reasons that some people will not kindly move to policies that involve equal outcome and all that. But no one really knows if it will work or not, unless it goes into
For the ones that may not know what the 1964 Civil Rights Act achieved, it ended racial segregation and made most forms of discrimination, that included in places like schools, the work place, and even in public, against the law. It was first proposed by President John F. Kennedy, but it never actually made it to the voting process due to the fact that the majority of southern congress was determined to basically ignore the act. In 1964, when President Johnson came to office after the assassination of President Kennedy, he was determined to get in passed into law. President Johnson used his known forceful personal powers to basically threaten the people to vote for the act. Along with using Kennedy’s death to push for the votes as well, saying that the people would be remembering Kennedy by voting for the act that he had originally proposed. The act went through an 83-day filibuster that was the longest in history and it also survived the strong southern opposition before President Johnson was able to officially sign it into law in the summer of …show more content…
It may as well alleviate some of the discrimination, but I do not believe that it will get rid of everything. That is due to the fact that some people may feel like they deserved more than another guy or they believe that one guy does not deserve the same privilege as they do, because maybe the guy did not perform as well as the others. There may be many reasons that some people will not kindly move to policies that involve equal outcome and all that. But no one really knows if it will work or not, unless it goes into