1964

In both cities, new opportunities for jobs and job training were put into place, new voting rights were passed, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed. Though the riots began because of an act of violence from the police against the African American community, the riots became more than just a reaction. The Harlem and the Watts Riots enacted more adjustments for jobs, job training, counseling…

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. As a result, Congress ordered the secretary of…

What is sexual harassment? It is any unwanted conduct directed at a person because of their gender. The EEOC has defined sexual harassment in its guidelines as: unwelcomed sexual advantages, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature. Proposal to such conduct is made either explicitly or implicitly a term or condition of an individual's employment. Submission to or rejection of such conduct by an individual is used as a basis for employment…

a bill into law, in 1964, that included a job-discrimination title and authorized creation of a new agency, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The goals of the March on Washington were: meaningful civil rights laws, a massive federal works program, full and fair employment, decent housing, the right to vote and adequate integrated education. The successes that we achieved were they had the support of the government President Johnson passed the Civil Right Act of 1964 that gave…

Laws Governing Sexual Harassment Clearly sexual harassment has been around as long as men and women have shared the same space. United States history is marked with this type of inappropriate and often heinous behavior. Reva Siegel and Catharine MacKinnon discuss this long history in an article they co-authored for the Yale Press in 2003. Siegel and MacKinnon point out that, “… sexual coercion was an entrenched feature of chattel slavery endured by African-American women” (Yale Press, 2003,…

The Civil Rights Movement Before the Civil Rights Movement innocent individuals would physically as well emotionally abused every time they would step one foot that was not outside their property. The movement was at its peak in 1954 all the way to 1968 and even after it ended, the unjust discrimination and comments did not stop. During the height of the movement people of all backgrounds and races would participate in sit-ins and non-violent protests to influence people to support the movement.…

great change in terms of civil rights, mainly as a result of huge protests. There were many civil rights issues that people protested for, but the main one was for black equality, which resulted in the black power movement. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a big part of the movement. The black power movement was a nationwide movement where people protested for black equality, the protests that came out of this movement were among the largest and most violent in our nations history. While the…

Desegregation is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as the “abolishment of racial segregation in schools and other institutions”. The fight to desegregate America was a long drawn out batter, and all efforts towards desegregation were consistently meet with opposition. Whites at the time had several motives for not wanting to desegregate. Then, once desegregation was to be legally enforced it was met with resistance from Whites, as well as reluctance from some African Americans. To white…

gap, has been the subject of large debates; “Congress first addressed the issue more than four decades ago in the Equal Pay Act of 1963, mandating an ‘equal pay for equal work’ standard, and addressed it again the following year in Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act” (Pay 3-32). On June 10, 1963, President John F. Kennedy signed into law the Equal Pay Act…

Near the end of the nineteenth century, African Americans had decided to fight for their freedom. The social and economic of the KKK racism era were deep-rooted. The power of white supremacists was extensive, most African American were afraid of any involvement within the political areas. Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth century African American were fighting for their rights as freed people. The Civil Rights Acts portrays how much the government did little to none for African American…