Monday, 29 June 2015

Describe the provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 aimed at ending segregation and racial discrimination. Civil rights movement

The Civil
Rights movement of the 1950's gradually influenced sweeping Congressional legislation in the
1960's. The Civil Rights Act 1964 added severe criminal penalities for any
discrimination in voting procedures, employment hiring practices, discrimination in public
facilities. In addition the law also stipulated that the federal government could withhold any
federal funding due to any state who was in defiance of the federal law....

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