be traced back to a 1976 redlining case in Oakley, Cincinnati. It was not until 1968, when the Fair Housing Act and other federal provisions regarding discrimination became law binding. A precedent regarding the application and interpretation of the anti-discrimination provisions was waiting to be set for local neighborhoods in the United States. Robert Laufman, a leading Cincinnati civil rights attorney, would be the one to set such a precedent by brining the first fair lending case to the…
connects with the Disability Act because they both explain that even though a person may have a disability the still have abilities like everyone else. The Disability Act is a very important act in U.S history because of what it states, the history of the act, and the challenges faced. There are many different parts to the Disabilities Act and one of the parts is equality. The Disability Act makes sure that everyone has full access to every aspect in ones life. The Disability Act removes…
This was proved to be untrue during the civil rights movement of the 1950’s/60’s when African Americans became increasingly vocal about their extreme displeasure with segregation (White Southerners' Reactions to the Civil Rights Movement | Department of State). They began to organize a series of grassroots groups that fought for the desegregation of public facilities across America…
University of Texas Law School utilized lower least criteria for African American and Mexican American applicants than for different competitors. To gathering test comes about inside ethnic grouping is called race norming. The act of race norming was prohibited by the Civil Rights Act of 1991. Title VII now expresses that it is unlawful work rehearse for a respondent to alter the score of or utilize distinctive cutoff scores for business related…
National Super Markets sexual harassment policy directs employees who believe they have been subjected to sexual harassment to contact individuals in the human resources department or the labor relations department. The policy provides that a supervisor who has learned of an incident of sexual harassment is to direct the employee to contact one of those individuals. The supervisor is not to take any personal action. This policy was included in the employee orientation handbook that Ms. Varner…
discriminated against an was due his return to his past position with back pay. This case again shows, specific issues with retaliation being taken against subordinates without due process and could actual fall into a Title VII Civil Rights Act case, but the District of Columbia has a Civil Process for adjudicating employee…
Malcolm X’s article “A Homemade Education” discusses his journey through prison and how the experience helped him meet his expectations of himself and of the African American community. He explains his life in prison as a time in which he transitioned himself from uneducated to educated by the use of literature and writing. Sandra Cisnero’s “Only Daughter” reviews the expectations that her father had for her life and how this was something that she always wanted to fulfill and his approval was…
The civil rights museum is magnificent. I love the fact the museum preserved the outside exactly the way it looked in April, 1968. There were cars parked in front of the motel to give a feel as if we were there on the day of his assassination and a wreath was placed where Dr. King was shot. When we got inside the museum there were posted scenes of slavery from the time it began to the time it ended. The museum was very organized with heavy security. In today’s society, I guess having enough…
Johnson addressed the rampant discrimination that was occurring in the workplace against African-Americans as well as other people of color by passing the Civil Rights Act. In addition to addressing discrimination based on color, they also addressed other forms of workplace discrimination that had historically been a problem. Title VII of the act applies to employers who employee 15 or more employees and prohibits discrimination in the workplace based on race, color, religion, sex, or national…
supervisor to be someone with the “power to hire, fire, fail to promote, reassign to a task with significantly different duties, or cause a significant change in benefits available to the victim.” This dramatically changes how Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the current standing law regarding workplace rights, which is used in harassment cases, can be applied. Title VII holds supervisors and employers to a different standard, with a supervisor being easier to prove for harassment than an…