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Civil Rights Act Summary
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In 1964, the United States passed one of its strongest civil rights laws in history, the Civil Rights Act. The act bans discrimination because of a person's color, race, national origin, religion, or sex; it primarily protects the rights of...
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United States 1964 The Civil Rights Act of 1964, the most significant piece of civil rights legislation since the Civil War, bans discrimination on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, and gender in the areas of public accommodation,...
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Civil Rights Act of 1964 Information
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Pub.L. 88-352, 78 Stat. 241, July 2, 1964) was landmark legislation in the United States that outlawed segregation in the US schools and public places. First conceived to help African Americans, the bill was...


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Human Rights
The 1964 Civil Rights Act: Then and Now
07/01/2004: 2,460 words, approx. 8 pages
Forty years after the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, it is hard to understand and even remember the furious battle over the passage ofthat law. Today, in 2004, with more than a third of the nation made up of African Americans, Hispanics,...
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The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
Listening to the civil rights movement.(ESSAY)(Civil Rights Act of 1964)
11/01/2005: 5,194 words, approx. 17 pages
WHERE ARE WE in the struggle for gay rights in the United States? Are we in the early stages of what will become a successful mass movement for equal civil rights and respect? Or have we reached the highest point of advance for the...
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Clinton heads to Harlem after Nevada win
1/20/2008: 280 words, approx. 1 pages
Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton attended services Sunday at a historic black church in Harlem, a day after her victory in the Nevada caucus and with a fresh challenge looming ahead of her in South Carolina.Clinton received a standing ovation from the congregation at the Abyssinian...
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Presidents' libraries join forces on Web
2/15/2007: 507 words, approx. 2 pages
On Aug. 4, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson had a busy day juggling his civil rights initiative, a growing crisis in the Gulf of Tonkin and the discovery of the bodies of three missing civil rights workers in Mississippi.He also got a call from the first...
 


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