In 1968, the Civil Rights Act of 1968 was signed into law by President Lyndon B.
Congress produced the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and a number of great legislative accomplishments.
When the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed, support for measures to prevent discrimination was strong.
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The enforcement of the education provision of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 remains a top priority of the Division.
Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, who filibustered for 24 hours and 18 minutes against the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
This is what certainly happened during the passage of Medicare, Medicaid, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, to name a few.
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Board of Education, and 36 years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Augusta National welcomed its first African-American member.
Even the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed under Commerce Clause powers because it targeted employers, schools and businesses, all arguably economic actors.
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We are the party of equality under the law, of the 14th Amendment as written, and of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as written.
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Johnson championed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, an act outlawing racial segregation in American institutions and paving the way for an African-American to be nominated for president.
Several decades later, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 only came about because local activists, led by prominent leaders such as Rev.
Similarly, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 experienced strong reactions.
It is instructive to look back at history when Congress passed two landmark civil rights measures: the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
If sex or age come into play, they can turn to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 or the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA).
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Thirty years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court banned discrimination of insured persons on the basis of their sex in connection with pension funds under the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The plaintiffs do not have to explain why their theory invalidates Medicare and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, both of which fall under any originalist theory of the Commerce Clause.
The best proof is that we now look back at both the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the filibuster rule change of 1975 and wonder that they once seemed so impossible.
Even though a dress code should not discriminate under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, it is unfortunate that many enforceable dress codes include provisions that mainly adversely affect minorities.
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Congress has invoked its commerce power to pass a vast array of laws, from the Endangered Species Act to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, often over conservative complaints that such regulation exceeded the intent of the Constitution's framers.
The bill deems discriminatory abortions to be violations of the 1964 Civil Rights Act for purposes of imposing penalties onto offenders, such as a loss of federal funding.
Nevertheless, the court's ruling further smudges the already blurred line between discrimination on the basis of sex, which is what is actually outlawed by Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act (the primary source of sexual-harassment law), and mere incivility or, in Mr Oncale's case, criminal assault.
During the 1990s, EPA adopted a very aggressive interpretation of a provision of the 1964 Civil Rights Act which applied to state use of federal funds, Title VI.
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But the larger issues of the year were the passage of the Civil Rights Act - which Barry Goldwater voted against - and, of course, the atmosphere created by the assassination of John F.
Now, 40 years after the Civil Rights Act, the idea of reparation no longer makes sense.
It is the broad language of the law, and that of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which has dragged the court into coming up with rules of its own to interpret what Congress meant.
Equal Pay: Title VII of the Civil Rights Act provides protection against pay discrimination, but the protection is useless if suits must be brought before employees know of the discrimination.
After the passage of the landmark Civil Rights Act, I worked to integrate USDA county offices and took the first group of black 4-H youth to compete in a state completion.
It can be argued that the acceptance of the 1964 Civil Rights Act by the nation at large was directly related to the size and the bipartisan composition of that historic cloture vote.
Born out of years of advocacy, the act took the conceptual template of existing rights legislation the 1964 Civil Rights Act and applied it to disability discrimination.
Many consider the Voting Rights Act the most effective legislation of the civil-rights era, and even conservative justices acknowledged its historic role.
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