Civil Rights Act Of 1964

About ten years before the civil rights movement which fought that “Separate but Equal” wasn't all that equal. Johns Hopkins hospital was placed in the middle of urban Baltimore, Maryland. For the purpose to create an environment that could help African Americans receive medical attention even if they couldn't afford it. Many people believe that the hospital was put there to “…benefit scientist- to give them potential research subjects” (Skloot 166). The hospital had a separate but equal policy like many establishments at that time.

Throughout the 1960’s medical health care was not as advanced and thorough like it is today. During the 1900’s, families were not as informed of their medical records than today due to a breakthrough in medical technology (Skloot, Rebecca. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks). In past years, hospital experience turned out to be quite lengthy stays for some people and had given a redundant insult with no respect to a patient. Some people had not been as beneficial as white people have. These problems should not even exist, it is just physical discrimination against people of different color.

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a federal Law that prohibits employers from discriminating against employees on the grounds of sex, race, color, national origin and religion (www.aauw.org). Thus far in our lectures we have discussed the strategies used by various minority groups who have been discriminated against in violation of Title VII. There has been land mark decisions made from the hard fought fights by, African Americans, Women, Mexicans and Jewish alike. Their challenges of non-compliance and enforcement of Title VII brought successes that didn’t come without sacrifice, division and in some cases physical harm.

This included support against racism, the rights of women, and new technologies. Due to Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), a separate but equal policy was established. This allowed the use of segregation laws by all levels of government. Whites and African Americans would have to go to different public facilities, but the Black ones were far worse in quality. They were dirty and run down in comparison to their White counterparts.

During President Kennedy’s presidency he got the Civil Rights Bill passed(S2). These were both used to help set and enforce free people’s rights in the country. The incident of Brown vs. The Board of Education was one of the most important cases that allowed the integration of African Americans in white schools to be allowed to learn the same material(T2). This escalated and sparked a revolution in civil rights with Chief Justice Earl Warren ruling that being separate was indeed unequal, at least in the sense of education(T1). However this lead to the equalizing of hospitals, old folks’ homes, rest rooms, waiting rooms, railroad cars, hotels, restaurants, lunch counters, parks and beaches, swimming pools, libraries, concert halls, and movie theaters(T3).

From the burning of the witches to the burning of the jews, different perceptions, cultures and beliefs have always interfered with living harmoniously. Although the world is made up of many shapes and sizes, diversity has always been a hard concept for mankind to accept. During the Renaissance period when Europeans began encountering people of a darker pigmentation and forming biases to the United States exercising judgement on slavery versus freedom, is it just human nature to gravitate towards similarity and be threatened by disparity? Are we hard-wired to be with others that simply mirror ourselves?

In case study 4, we were asked to identify and research three different laws that has help us or our colleagues. Three different laws stood out to me as being an African American man and a Uniformed Service Member were Civil Rights Act 1964, Affirmative Action Plan and the Uniformed Service Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA). Each one of these laws have tried to even the playing fields for African Americans and Service members. As you read through this case, I will go in to detail of each law and relate these laws to my life experiences

In order to appreciate the advancements that civil rights have brought to today’s generation we must first look back at how life was prior to President Lyndon B Johnson signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Act outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin, thus ending segregation and promoting integration and it empowered African-Americans’ with voting privileges. This was a way to govern and enforce both social justice and social benefits.

President Lyndon B. Johnson and President John F. Kennedy made many notable advances to outlaw discrimination in America. They fought against discrimination on race, color, religion, and national origin. Although the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments outlawed slavery, provided for equal protection under the law, guaranteed citizenship, and protected the right to vote, individual states continued to allow unfair treatment of minorities and passed Jim Crow laws allowing segregation of public facilities. America would not be the country it is today without their effort to make this country better and of course without the help of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

The Civil Right Act of 1964 banned discrimination in employment on the basis of race,color,religion,sex,and national origin. The act also outlawed discrimination in public accommodations and gave the justice department the authority to bring lawsuits to enforce school desegregation. The Civil Rights Act was first proposed by President John F. Kennedy and opposed by southern members of Congress, was signed into to law by Lyndon B. Johnson.

Americans and even immigrants are afforded their basic civil rights based on the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The act, which was signed into law on July 2, 1964, declared all discrimination for any reason based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin will be deemed illegal in the United States (National Park Service, n.d.). When the act was enacted, people had to become more open minded; more accepting to the various cultures and backgrounds of individuals. Understanding that concept leads to the notion that there is and will be a diverse population within the United States. Diversity, as defined by the Cambridge dictionary, is the condition or fact of being different or varied (Cambridge Dictionary, n.d.). Diversity is also

On April 19, 1866, the US Congress passed the first ever Civil Rights Act. It gave black Americans the right to own their own property, to have legal protection in business, and to take people to court. The act was also the first time that black Americans were called citizens of the United States. This meant that black Americans would have the same rights and privileges as all other US citizens. Another Civil Rights Act was passed in 1875. This act made it illegal to discriminate on the basis of race in public places, such as restaurants. In 1883, the Supreme Court ruled that the 1875 act was unconstitutional on the basis that businesses had the right to choose which customers they served and which they could ignore. This allowed businesses that provided public facilities to choose to exclude black people. On June 1, 1909, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was formed. It became the most important civil rights organization fighting for the rights of black people in the United States. It is still active today and has a membership of about half a million. On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court passed a judgment that changed the course of civil rights in the United States. In the case of Brown v. the Board of Education, the judges on the Supreme Court declared that racial segregation in education was unconstitutional and therefore against the law. This decision overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson case of 1896. Shortly after noon on Monday May 17,

“After the end of Reconstruction in 1877, southern states and local communities began to enact laws known as segregation or "Jim Crow" laws. These measures separated the races in public accommodations. Rather than passing one sweeping law, local and state legislators in the South passed a series of laws between 1881 and 1910 that required separate accommodations for blacks and whites in public spaces. These laws were indicative of the hardening of the philosophy of white supremacy throughout the South during this time.”(Cassanello). The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the most influential event in the Civil Rights Movement because it paved way for ending discrimination and segregation, and giving more rights to African- Americans. During the Civil Rights Movement African- Americans were fighting to get their rights that were being taken away from them little by little. Starting in 1955 and going well into the late 1960’s early 1970’s, African- Americans started to protest against discriminatory laws and acts such as Jim Crow Laws and various requirements to vote. They did this because they wanted to be treated as equals and not to be judged because of their race(Mayer).

My mother was a police officer for almost twenty years. Women have long been subject to, and the subject of, discrimination. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 originally did not include gender in the bill’s wording. Were it not for a backhanded comment made in jest by a backward congressman, women would not have been afforded equal rights protection in employment (Freeman, 1991; 2004).

primarily the result of challenges made by the NAACP, and the resulting general shifts in