1964

In January of 1964, Lyndon Johnson declared an unconditional “War on Poverty.” Johnson did not really want to improve living conditions through a welfare state. Instead, his goal was to “not only relieve the symptoms of poverty, but to cure it and, above all, to prevent it.” He wanted people to be able to support themselves and bring themselves out of poverty. He focused on education and job skills, so that people could help themselves. He wanted to make “taxpayers out of taxeaters.” If this was…

the warehouse guy. He called me into his office on a Friday at 3pm and told me that because of this incident I was losing my position with the company and that I should not file for unemployment as he would fight me on it. The Civil Rights Act of 1964, title VII states that any act of discrimination on the bases of race, color, religion, sex or national origin is illegal. Title VII also prohibits acts of retaliation. Another type of sexual harassment is know as a hostile work environment. In…

Type of group affected According the Nation’s Premier Civil and Human Rights Coalition(2016), housing discrimination affects people of all races, ethnicities, national origins and religions. Women, people with disabilities and families with children may also face barriers to their fair housing rights. For many families, discrimination in housing was brought to the forefront in the 1960s. In the United States before 1968, laws were not established to protect minorities from inequality and…

The fallacy of meritocracy holds no true weight when considering years of gatekeeping, social inequalities and discriminatory practices perpetrated against poor young African Americans. There can never be a colorblind society if biased SAT’s, affirmative action and multicultural competency programs fail to be effective on university campuses across the nation. The notion of diversity is only an idea in theory, never to be fully instituted or absorbed into the social fabric of American culture.…

All of the cases and people involved in fighting for equal rights for African Americans played an important role in the Civil Rights Movement. We learn about the famous ones who delivered speeches or changed laws but even the boy who participated in a sit-in or the girl who became friends with someone who wasn’t the same color as she was, played a big part in changing how our country view race and rights. One of the earliest faces of Civil Rights is Dred Scott. He was born into slavery in…

African Americans were made to be completely separated from whites by society and the laws it had put in place by using public facilities, schools, businesses, and even transportation to make this happen. As the separation progressed many movements and protests began to arise in order to put an end to the discrimination and achieve equality. The Montgomery Bus Boycott was one of the many protests that took place during this radical movement. In this document Rosa Parks gives her account of how…

Discrimination Employment Act (ADEA) was enforced to protect employees’ ages 40 or older rights to work and in 1986 to protect mandatory retirement. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) enforcement under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, “the law makes it illegal to discriminate against someone on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, or sex. The law also makes it illegal to retaliate against a person…

citizenship status of blacks and the judicial decisions and legislation based on these amendments, resulting in three notable cases: • The Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision of 1954. (Textbook, p. 956); • The Civil Rights Act of 1964. (Textbook, p. 976); • And the Voting Rights Act of 1965. (Textbook, p.…

speakers ended their meetings with Congress to go join the March, both houses passed legislation to create a dispute arbitration board for striking railroad workers. The March is credited with creating political momentum for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The cooperation of a Democratic administration with the issue of civil rights marked a pivotal moment in voter alignment within the U.S. The Democratic Party gave up the Solid South—its undivided support since…

movement was not only trying to stop black oppression but also to bring the country together no matter if they were white, black, or any other race. The movement brought two groups of people that wouldn’t ever meet in America. The Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968 finally ended the legal sanctions to Jim Crow…