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    The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 88–352, 78 Stat. 241, enacted July 2, 1964) is a landmark civil rights and labor...
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  • Civil Rights Act may refer to several acts of the United States Congress, including: Civil Rights Act of 1866, extending the rights of emancipated slaves...
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    The Act represented the first effort since the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to modify some of the basic procedural and substantive rights provided...
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    The Civil Rights Act of 1957 was the first federal civil rights legislation passed by the United States Congress since the Civil Rights Act of 1875. The...
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    The Civil Rights Act of 1875, sometimes called the Enforcement Act or the Force Act, was a United States federal law enacted during the Reconstruction...
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    Housing Act, which was meant as a follow-up to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (this is different legislation than the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968...
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    The Civil Rights Act of 1960 (Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 86–449, 74 Stat. 89, enacted May 6, 1960) is a United States federal law that...
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    The Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987, or Grove City Bill, is a United States legislative act that specifies that entities receiving federal funds must...
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    passage of several significant pieces of federal legislation that authorized oversight and enforcement of civil rights laws. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 explicitly...
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    The Civil Rights Act of 1990 was a bill that, had it been signed into law, would have made it easier for litigants in race or sex discrimination cases...
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    Lyndon B. Johnson during the height of the civil rights movement on August 6, 1965, and Congress later amended the Act five times to expand its protections...
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    Montgomery marches, and the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965, and Fair Housing Act of 1968, marked significant milestones...
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    congressional committees. Following the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965, Southern states became more reliably Republican...
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  • long-stalled tax cut facilitated efforts to move ahead on the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The stated goals of the tax cuts were to raise personal incomes, increase...
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    Wikisource has original text related to this article: Civil Rights Act of 1866 The Civil Rights Act of 1866 (14 Stat. 27–30, enacted April 9, 1866, reenacted...
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  • harassment and stating it was a form of sex discrimination prohibited by the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Civil Rights Act of 1991 added provisions to Title...
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  • 1964 Monson Motor Lodge protest was part of a series of events during the civil rights movement in the United States which occurred on June 18, 1964,...
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    Commission on Civil Rights (CCR) is a bipartisan, independent commission of the United States federal government, created by the Civil Rights Act of 1957 during...
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  • allowed to end of slavery with the Civil Rights Act of 1866, followed by women's suffrage, among other rights, The Civil Rights Act of 1866 was enacted...
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    Obama on January 29, 2009. The act amends Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and states that the 180-day statute of limitations for filing an equal-pay...
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    discrimination solely on the grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. There is no federal law against...
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  • Employees in the United States are protected under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex...
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    Carolina, began a filibuster intended to prevent the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1957. The filibuster—an extended speech designed to stall legislation—began...
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    as upscale lodging that catered to a black clientele. After the Civil Rights Act of 1964 banned segregated businesses, Bailey believed he needed to improve...
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  • 2018. "Civil Rights Act of 1964Zwebsite=Finduslaw.com". Retrieved October 30, 2014. Loevy, Robert. "A Brief History of the Civil Rights Act of 1964". Retrieved...
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    Party because of its anti-slavery civil rights policies. Following the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Southern...
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  • Lau v. Nichols (category Linguistic rights)
    lack of supplemental language instruction in public school for students with limited English proficiency violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The court...
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  • rights of all Americans. De jure segregation was outlawed by the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of...
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  • The Civil Rights Act of 1964 silver dollar is a commemorative coin issued by the United States Mint in 2014. It was authorized by an act of congress,...
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  • this article: Civil Rights Cases The Civil Rights Cases, 109 U.S. 3 (1883), were a group of five landmark cases in which the Supreme Court of the United...
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